“ [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
“ A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. China Mieville
“ 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
“ The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. Stanislaw Lem
“ Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill. Sunday Adelaja