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The oldest whales in the ocean were alive before 'Moby-Dick' and have the harpoons to prove it
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“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
#HGWells #TheWarOfTheWorlds #ScienceFiction #SciFiClassics #HorrorFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thCentury #VictorianLiterature #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
#RobertLouisStevenson #BurkeandHare #HorrorClassics #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookstodon -
“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon