"They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Horse Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“Duotrope is like a smart phone. You can't imagine the world ever going back.”
“Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!”

Source : J. California Cooper (2011). “Family”, p.104, Anchor
“Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.”
“The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.”
“Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.”
“It depends on my promoter, Bob Arum.”
“There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.”
“There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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