“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift
“ I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student—but somehow despite my efforts, I a… Donna Tartt
“ Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln
“ Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. Gregory Maguire
“ Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away. Gregory Maguire
“ I can't tell you—oh I can't tell you—how awful—how sort of unlivable—everything is now—like a great black wall in front of me—Something's got to smash. Iris Murdoch
“ But she saw nothing in my eyes—she stared at me as though I had made a long journey on a white charger all the way to her prison house. James Baldwin
“ The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wi… Fridik Erlings
“ T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings. Charles de Lint
