Alex Cather

“Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“His life incarnated a sense of sheer human possibility ... inescapably, there is something that takes the breath away.”
― David Bell

“To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical box.”
― George Orwell, 1984