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“His lithe back expressed the same menace; every step that carried him away from me seemed to bear him on some errand connected with my destruction.”
― The King in Yellow: Stories of Madness, Mystery, and the Macabre
― The King in Yellow: Stories of Madness, Mystery, and the Macabre
“They gave a wide berth to the fires, but at a distance saw the flitting forms of pillagers among the débris. Sometimes they passed a female fury crazed with drink shrieking anathemas upon the world, or some slouching lout whose blackened face and hands betrayed his share in the work of destruction.”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“He disappeared and she rose and crossed the floor before the lawyer and gave him a little curtsying nod, ragged, shoeless, deferential and half deranged, and yet moving in an almost palpable amnion of propriety.”
― Outer Dark
― Outer Dark
“Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.”
― Child of God
― Child of God
“At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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