Joseph

“The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
― Michael Dobbs

“severing Sherman’s life line he would provoke him into rashness or oblige him to retreat.”
― Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

“The Westcotts lived in the parish of the strange wild clergyman whose church looked over the sea; strange and wild in the eyes of Treliss because he was a giant in size and had a long flowing beard, because he kept a perfect menagerie of animals in his little house by the church, and because he talked in such an odd wild way about God being in the sea and the earth rather than in the hearts of the Treliss citizens—all these things odd enough and sometimes, early in the morning, he might be seen, mother-naked, going down the path to the sea to bathe, which was hardly decent considering his great size and the immediate neighbourhood of the high road.”
― Hugh Walpole, Fortitude