"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
— Henry James

"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."
— William Faulkner

"When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow."
— William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

"Time is making fools of us again."
— J.K. Rowling

"And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand."
— William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

"The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop."
— Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood: A Novel)