Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by T.H. White

Quote by T.H. White

“My father always used to tell one of his dreams, because it somehow seemed of a piece with what was to follow. He believed that it was a consequence of the thing's presence in the next room. My father dreamed of blood. It was the vividness of the dreams that was impressive, their minute detail and horrible reality. The blood came through the keyhole of a locked door which communicated with the next room. I suppose the two rooms had originally been designed en suite. It ran down the door panel with a viscous ripple, like the artificial one created in the conduit of Trumpingdon Street. But it was heavy, and smelled. The slow welling of it sopped the carpet and reached the bed. It was warm and sticky. My father woke up with the impression that it was all over his hands. He was rubbing his first two fingers together, trying to rid them of the greasy adhesion where the fingers joined." ("The Troll")”

Quote by T.H. White

Work

Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

T.H. White

Browse famous quotes and profile details for T.H. White. more

You May Also Like

“He said he'd hurt himself against a wall or had fallen down. But there was probably some other reason for the wounded, the bandaged shoulder. With a rather abrupt gesture, reaching for a shelf to bring down some photographs he wanted to look at, the bandage came came undone and a little blood ran. I did it up again, taking my time over the binding; he wasn't in pain and I liked looking at the blood. It was a thing of my love, that blood. When he left, I found, in front of his chair, a bloody rag, part of the dressing, a rag to be thrown straight into the garbage; and I put it to my lips and kept it there a long while- the blood of love against my lips.”

“A brilliant sunset of pink and orange painted the sky to his right as they escaped from the castle grounds. He noticed the absence of the deep red of blood in the lovely sky’s scenery. His familiarity with the color was unnatural. It was found nowhere else in nature, almost as if it had never been meant for humans to see. To his left, the impending dusk loomed, and Satya found comfort in its familiar embrace.”

“Assisti a tudo, gotas de suor formando-se na testa. Queria dizer para pararem, mas não tinha voz. Estava emudecida, os meus dedos procurando em vão uma fenda que já não existia. Senti lágrimas nos olhos quando vi a explosão no ecrã. Fechei os olhos por momentos, e, mesmo assim, vi crianças que morriam queimadas nas ruas estreitas onde brincavam, ruas paralelas à da imagem inicial; as mães, arranhando a própria cara, que gritavam pelos filhos que não mais iriam ver; velhos esfarrapados, a boca aberta num grito perante os pedaços de corpos humanos e animais, emaranhados no fim. Vi um edifício explodir, fragmentos pesados em todas as direcções, acertando em formigas de movimentos velozes. Só que não eram formigas! Onde estava a compaixão? A empatia? E o cumprimento das convenções assinadas, das regras?”