“Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“After wriggling over multiple keys, Anna shut the computer as if locking away an explosive device.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at looking younger.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Everyone, including Robbin’ Robin, dashed for the house as rain hammered down on them, Mary slammed the back door shut just as the sky split open.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Closed curtains subdued the storm noises, as if the cloth and glass really were a protective shell for Holywell.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn’t the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: ‘This is where my story begins.’”
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“If it’s the next storm, perhaps it’s going the other way.” “Goddess, I hope so,” said Dorothy, grimacing at her tea.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“It's purpose, not productivity, is the real measure of intelligence.”
Source: WHEN PURPOSE LEARNS TO CODE: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Storytelling Inquiry into the Future of Moral Agency in AI. | Stories and Theories from the Seven Dimensions of Artificial Intention.
“Our bodies bound by space and time, under laws of nature.
That's why we see life as if a journey in space that needs time.
When we pass boundary, we'll see that life is a state of nature.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Division was the only order.”
Source: Inversions