Zachary

“It was one of those nights when the beleaguered moon drives like a spectral ship through the scudding storm rack of the sky, and the wind howls and shrieks like a demented fiend.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Cant Go Home Again

“They were all out of their bodies then, their shared momentum carrying them higher and farther than they'd ever dreamed.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

“In the summer he used to go with the Thierault boys to Brittany or to the Languedoc coast; but his lake was itself, as the Channel and the Mediterranean were themselves. 'No,' he used to tell the boys, who were always asking him about le Michigan, 'it is altogether different. It is a sea, and yet it is not salt. It is blue, but quite another blue. Yes, there are clouds and mists and sea-gulls, but -- I don't know, il est toujours plus naif”
― Willa Cather, The Professor's House

“in her voice there was something fresh and delicate, like deep wood flowers. 'Connais-tu -- le pays" -- it stirred one like the odours of early spring, recalled the time of sweet, impersonal emotions.”
― Willa Cather, The Professor's House