Eric

“And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.”
― Daniel Arsand, Lovers

“The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Everything is octopusied.”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid