Condensation Quotes

“Inside, where a thermos ought to be, lay a small oval mirror set in tarnished brass. The mirror's face was clouded with thick white condensation, as if someone beneath the glass had leaned close and exhaled on it.”
― Belinda Kelderhouse, DO NOT READ AFTER MIDNIGHT

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
― Mark Twain