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"The first meeting since he had grabbed her child from her. It was an encounter without anger. Without pardon. Without a glance. Without judgment."

Kaniuk, Yoram. Commander of the Exodus.

"When at last he had begun to realize the gulf between himself and others, he realized also that he had been damaged past repair by his simian upbringing. In these circumstances he would, as a rule, content himself with a life of personal kindliness and humour, which was ever rooted in the strength of his own unshakable ecstasy of contemplation."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 269)

"Paul had by now almost fulfilled the task that I had demanded of him."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 256)

"WITH THIS SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENT SOLIDLY accomplished, Paul was ready to observe London and the world with new eyes."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 233)

"Paul spent the last fortnight of his summer holiday at home, preparing for the next term, and feeling the influence of Katherine spread deeply into his being."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 221)

"YOUR LITTLE GREAT WAR REACHED its ignominious end."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 201)

"I MUST NOW DESCRIBE FROM the Neptunian point of view that moment in the career of the First Men which seemed to those who experienced it an eternity of war."

-Stapeldon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 152)

"Your war-time politicians, perhaps more clearly than your generals, displayed for us the essential weakness of your kind."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 124)

"I now pass on to tell you how your war and your reactions to your war appear to the Last Men."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 119)

"When at last he learned of the marriage, he passed, of course, through a phase of self-pitying despair; but within a fortnight he was already, through my influence, no less than through native resilience, beginning to explore a very different field of experience."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 99)

"Not until Paul was already at school did I begin to exercise a deliberate influence over him. My aim was to prepare him to attain in early maturity as complete an insight as possible into the Neptunian view of Terrestrial affairs."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 72)

"This it was that in the majority of Paul’s contemporaries caused, indeed, grave agony of mind, but could not bring them to refuse war."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 58)

"In fact the length of the trance depends simply on the brain’s capacity to assimilate, not upon the actual duration of the events observed."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 31)

"Pallas wiped her eyes with the heel of her hand and then blew her nose. Now what?"

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 253)

"She backed away, staring at the exact face of him, repelled by but locked into his eyes, chaste and wide with hatred. "

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 235)

"When we had looked in one another’s eyes for a long moment, we buckled on our flying-suits once more; then, in opposite directions, we climbed the air. By dawn next day we had to be at our appointed stations, far asunder on the great planet’s surface, to participate in the Racial Awakening, the sublime event to which every adult person on the planet must needs contribute."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London pg 14

"The house sprawled its rambling length in the wintry afternoon, its smoke like a balanced plume on the windless sky. The door was empty and he shook Perry into his easy, tireless foxtrot, the jug of whisky jouncing a little against his knee."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 358)

"And they would lie so, holding to one another in the darkness and the temporary abeyance of his despair and the isolation of that doom he could not escape."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 299)

"After a time he rose and limped to the car and started the engine."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 280)

"In the meanwhile he wrote another letter."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 235)

“I mean, dubbing me a poet,” Horace explained. “The law, like poetry, is the final resort of the lame, the halt, the imbecile and the blind. I dare say Caesar invented the law business to protect himself against poets.”

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 183)

"The meaning of peace, he said to himself once more, releasing the grave words one by one within the cool bell of silence into which he had come at last again, hearing them linger with a dying fall pure as silver and crystal struck lightly together."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 169)

"Nothing to be seen, and the long long span of a man’s natural life. Three score and ten years, to drag a stubborn body about the world and cozen its insistent demands. Three score and ten, the bible said. Seventy years. And he was only twenty-six. Not much more than a third through it. Hell."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 154)

"At the end of the street it stood trembling and snorting and permitted the negro hostler to touch it. Rafe MacCallum still clutched his roll of bills."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 130)

"Pat licked her bottom lip, tasted salt and wondered who exactly the tears were for."

-Morrison, Toni. Paradise (pg. 204)

"As they neared the bank Narcissa Benbow came along from the opposite direction, and they met at the door, where he made her a ponderous compliment on her appearance while she stood in her pale dress and shouted her grave voice into his deafness."

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 101)

“Come back again soon,” Miss Jenny called.
“Yes. Soon,” Narcissa answered. “Goodbye.”

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 74)

'Simon said: “You aint never yit planted nothin’ whar hit ought ter be planted.” He sat on the bottom step, whetting the blade of his hoe with a file. Miss Jenny stood with her caller at the edge of the veranda above him, in a man’s felt hat and heavy gloves. A pair of shears dangled below her waist, glinting in the morning sunlight.'

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 47)

“Sinner riz fum de moaner’s bench,
Sinner jump to de penance bench;
When de preacher ax ’im whut de reason why,
Says ‘Preacher got de women jes’ de same ez I’.
Oh, Lawd, Oh Lawd!
Oat’s whut de matter wid de church today.”

-Faulkner, William. Flags in the Dust (pg. 23)

"IT LOOKED TO Ty Ty as if there would be trouble before evening."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 138)