Spectres Quotes

“the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon. The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Román había sido el espectro de un muerto. De un hombre que hubiera muerto muchos años atrás y que ahora se volviera por fin a su infierno…”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada