The Moon Stands Still Quotes

“On the East Coast, sunrise will steal the breath right out of your body.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“dripping with rain, the umbrellas looked like crumpled bouquets cast aside by sobbing brides.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“tall evergreens whose long and lush boughs were coated with mineral dust, like elegant ladies wearing too much face powder.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“She wore amethyst-purple woolen slacks paired with a bright yellow leather jacket, like a human being hoping to become an iris.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“Three hundred years later, the van came to a stop.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“Her drawing conveyed a forlorn and haunting suspense, as if asking the viewer to wonder whether these creatures would still be alive when the tide came back.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still

“A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door.”
― Sibella Giorello, The Moon Stands Still