5 Quotes & Sayings By Emily Ca Snyder

Emily C. A. Snyder is the author of the bestselling novel, "The Silk Roads." Her fiction has appeared in magazines like "Granta," "The Paris Review," and "The Iowa Review." Her essays have appeared in "Granta," "The Paris Review," and on NPR's "All Things Considered." She is currently an associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she also directs the graduate writing program.

What could she have done? She was a heroine, and...
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What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations. Emily C.A. Snyder
Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical...
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Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise. Emily C.A. Snyder
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Another strike of lightening — now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting Henry very picturesquely against the inconstant moon. Alas, Catherine was deeply engaged in her argument with Old Edric and this missed entirely the melodramatic display. But we may assume that, possessing so strong an imagination, Catherine had often pictured Henry thus... Emily C.A. Snyder
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But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell away as they ascended, as though the ranks of black and frowning conifers waged war against the humans below. Even the path — rather narrow and rarely straight — seemed less made by centuries of pilgrim feet and more by the trace of some careless demon’s claw. It was, in fact, perfect. Emily C.A. Snyder