"Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill."
- Sunday Adelaja
"The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass."
- Stanisław Lem
"She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as..."
- Kate Morton
"[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you ..."
- Wallace Stegner
"So the earth is shaking Here the word's faking As there's no time for lies. Kiss and dance all nights! In no need of balanceNothing makes sense Get it loose with no excuse. Shake and dance!"
- Ana Claudia Antunes
"Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it."
- Tim Fargo
"A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul."
- China Miéville