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All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.Nathan Reese Maher
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And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night.Erich Maria Remarque
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The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...Virginia Alison
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.William Shakespeare
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Beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.Kahlil Gibran
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My storm is my own... Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...Virginia Alison
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Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreamsplay when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?Nathan Reese Maher
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Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.Nathan Reese Maher
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There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomachin a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in thedarkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.Nathan Reese Maher
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I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?Nathan Reese Maher
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Did Bach ever eatpancakes at midnight?Nathan Reese Maher
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History doesn’t start with a tall buildingand a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is takingus for suckers and is playing a mean game.Nathan Reese Maher
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I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and it is there that my stomach leaps into my throat. Squatting just shy of the light and partially concealed by the shade of an alley is a sinister silhouette beneath a crimson cowl, beaming a demonic smile which spans from cheek to swollen cheek.Nathan Reese Maher
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She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing, “–if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… acopper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.Nathan Reese Maher
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I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.Nathan Reese Maher
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That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what youshould name it.Nathan Reese Maher
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Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy.V.S. Carnes
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Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send.Nathan Reese Maher
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This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.Jocelyn Murray
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.William Shakespeare
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He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.Laura Kinsale
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Pour on, I will endure.William Shakespeare
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But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.Thomas Hardy