“With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.” StillsDarkPagesWindowHotHolesClockFoxesPrintedStinkTick Author:Ted Hughes
“Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."” IfsBelieveDarkAtheismPagesClaimsPositive AtheismSentencesCommitDogmaRejectedAbsurdityTestedAtrocitiesDogmaticOne Sentence Author:Herbert J. Muller
“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.” GivingFeelsHumansArtBookIdeasStatesPlayReadingDarkConsciousnessFictionEnvironmentDangerPossibilityDevelopmentPagesSmartScience FictionPrivilegeThanksExcellentFascinatingThroatHostileHuman DevelopmentHuman ConsciousnessHostile Environment Author:Neal Asher
“If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.” IfsLooksMadeBookThreeLiteratureStarsDarkNumbersFamePagesMirrorsFilledVisualsTrappedBlankTigersCubesBlank Pages Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.” WritingYearsKindLongTwoStoriesFightingFoundDarkLossSimpleBoysRegretCoupleComputerPagesSittingBetrayalTalesSatShort StoryNostalgicKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.” IfsStillsBookSoulSometimesDreamHandsMightDarkSinWindPagesMouthsGardenLongingTiredWingsSpreadMelodyBroadsIntervalsSculptorsSeamless Book:The Book of Images Source: The Book of Images
“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?” BookFacesHouseDarkMillionsPagesWindowShopsSquaresBedroom Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“No one looks like Fang-dark and still and dangerous, like he's daring you to set him off. But I'd seen him rocking Angel when she'd hurt herself; I'd seen him smile in his sleep; I'd seen the deep, darkl ight in his eyes as he leaned over me... ~Max; "Max"; page 24” LooksStillsEyeHurtDarkSleepDangerousPagesAngelHis EyesDaringMaxFangs Author:James Patterson
“Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.” GivingMindFirstsMomentsNightLanguageDarkStudySawsPagesSentencesWitLandscapeFlashSuspicionLightningClueForeign LanguageOminous Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.” FearDarkVisionPagesCloudsSpreadInkFragmentedDark Clouds Author:Garth Nix
“When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.” KnowsWayFirstsBookEndsLastsDiesSidesDarkCasesKnow HowPagesMy FriendsDark SideNew Books Author:Nora Ephron
“Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.” YearsHeartKindChildrenTurnsWishGrowsDarkWhiteWonderMoonPaperPagesWindowEdgesHolesSheetsGlueBlazingFlashlights Author:Dorianne Laux
“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.” IfsWorldLongStillsBookDreamLightNightWaitingSidesVoiceDarkRoomsSilencePaintingWallPagesBuiltSkinsGlassesLong AgoFillingDark SideBad DreamPurringShort WordsStained GlassTickling Author:Cornelia Funke
“One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black.” BookBlackHoursDarkEmotionPagesRedAgreeFilledPencilsHappy Hour Author:Arturo Pérez-Reverte
“Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)” KnowsWantSaidUseDarkAbilitySacrificeBloodPagesTablesDinnerRidiculousPanicPreparingThey SaidMarry MeCharlotteBlood Sacrifice Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel
“How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!” KnowsWellsMeanLongBookSoulAgeTurnsFoundVoiceDarkFireWiseWindPagesCrossesBlowMy SoulEveningDumbPleasantProseAutumnVersesNovemberHueShutters Author:Robert Browning