Sightlines Magazine Quotes & Sayings

swallowed by another noise: an indistinct thudder. — Alena Graedon

The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, "as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid. — Sigmund Freud

Together we will finish and do great exploits for the Lord and the devil cannot stop us — Sunday Adelaja

Time is fluid here', said the Demon. — Neil Gaiman

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot. — Barbara Kingsolver

The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. — Victor Hugo

It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter's hypothetical soul.
That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds. — Jeff Lindsay

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing. — Bill Frisell

His leg might be weaker, but at least it no longer mattered when one half of a pair of socks went AWOL in the dryer. — Laura Kaye