“When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.” SeemsModernPagesHolesClassicScholarQuotationsCiting Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“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
“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
“It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.” IfsShouldTryingLastsFacesNightPerfectKnowingPagesWideBreatheHolesClarityRanWheelsPrintLackingLungsLast NightRippedHallucinationsBrakeSteering Author:Stephenie Meyer