A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Michael David LukasStichwörter: truth literary hourglass
Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt compelled to look deeper, searching for something inside her, but her soul was covered and her eyes would not show me.
Cristina MartinStichwörter: fiction literary mystery thriller romance-love-heartache
Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.
Cora CarmackStichwörter: hope shame chance literary guilt self-hatred desire want chance-and-fortune losing-it garrick phaedra
I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god’s knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. I don’t share your gods, but I pray I shall die a silent death.
Marcus SpehStichwörter: inspirational humanity christmas literary pacific-islands speh
Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments we will never have.
Kristin MaddockCensorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Stichwörter: censorship freedom-of-thought literary freedom-of-speech american african-american freedom-to-read
I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.
Christopher HarrisStichwörter: fiction literary football
Kata-kata adalah pedang paling tajam, paling menikam.
Words are the sharpest sword, the most stabbed.
Stichwörter: literary
Inspirasi tak mengenal kata mati
There is no death for inspiration.
Stichwörter: inspiration literary
High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk.
W.E.B. Du BoisStichwörter: literary
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