Nick R

“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Kitty's face was not there. In place of it, where it used to be, was something dreadful both in it's strained look and in the sound that came from it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Vol 7 of 8

“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as "what one reads about" may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey