{"quotes":[{"text":"The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.","author":"Brian Morton","tags":["beautiful-writing","descriptive","nature"],"id":8498,"author_id":"Brian+Morton"},{"text":"His feet went banging down some stairs. He closed his eyes. They went through cinders and dirt, his heels gathering small windrows of trash. A dim world receded above his upturned toes, shapes of skewed shacks erupted bluely in the niggard lamplight. The rusting carcass of an automobile passed slowly on his right. Dim scenes pooling in the summer night, wan ink wash of junks tilting against a paper sky, rorschach boatmen poling mutely over a mooncobbled sea. He lay with his head on the moldy upholstery of an old car seat among packingcrates and broken shoes and suncrazed rubber toys in the dark. Something warm was running on his chest. He put up a hand. I am bleeding. Unto my death.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["descriptive","literature"],"id":11549,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flickering all around, I felt as though I had woken from one dream into an even more remote one, some bizarre wartime bomb shelter of the unconscious.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["atmospheric","descriptive","donna-tartt","dream-within-a-dream","dreams","eerie","the-secret-history"],"id":21396,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.","author":"Amber Dawn","tags":["beautiful","descriptive","imagery","light","morning"],"id":26449,"author_id":"Amber+Dawn"},{"text":"Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back... The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...","author":"Nalo Hopkinson","tags":["afro-hair","black-hair","black-skin","brown-eyes","descriptive","patois","race"],"id":28782,"author_id":"Nalo+Hopkinson"},{"text":"At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was sitting on his shoulder, and his face got redder and redder, and a breath seemed to gather itself beneath his heart.","author":"T.H. White","tags":["beautiful","descriptive"],"id":31537,"author_id":"T.H.+White"},{"text":"He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland and river, mysterious and secretive in a different way from St. Mawes, the little town with its long smuggling history, where colorful houses tumbled down to the beach.","author":"Robert Galbraith","tags":["britain","career-of-evil","cormoran-strike","cornwall","descriptive","nature","robert-galbraith","seaside"],"id":37751,"author_id":"Robert+Galbraith"},{"text":"Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth turned the dark skin of the fiery balloon midnight blue. They flew straight up. Above them, the sweet, clear music of the lonely pipe called to them. Then the smooth sky puckered into cloth-of-blue and drew aside. They passed straight through...","author":"Pauline Fisk","tags":["blue","descriptive","escapism","imaginative","piper","runaway","sky"],"id":39096,"author_id":"Pauline+Fisk"},{"text":"Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.","author":"H.E. Bates","tags":["descriptive","dreamy","garden","luddite","nature"],"id":44278,"author_id":"H.E.+Bates"},{"text":"Although yoga has its origins in ancient India, its methods and purposes are universal, relying not on cultural background, faith or deity, but simply on the individual. Yoga has become important in the lives of many contemporary Westerners, sometimes as a way of improving health and fitness of the body, but also as a means of personal and spiritual development.","author":"Tara Fraser","tags":["descriptive","yoga"],"id":46876,"author_id":"Tara+Fraser"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}