“then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald , book The Beautiful and Damned

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

“There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait."”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

Part I, section xxii, stanza 10
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it, all Maxwell. Tall and slim and white in the dusk, the girl stood there, hands on the picket gate.”

Lillian Smith (author) book Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit (1944) First lines

“The train came out of the long border tunnel — and there was the snow country. The night had turned white.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

First lines (as translated by Edward Seidensticker).
Snow Country (1948)

“As much as 70 percent of the sun's heat rays can be reflected from one's house by the installation of a white or light-colored roof.”

Ken Kern American writer

The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)

“She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness—so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.”

Tad Williams (1957) novelist

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 17, “Bonfire Night” (p. 540).

“I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had been led astray
Through the heav'n's wide pathless way,
And oft, as if her head she bowed,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 65

“And then the lute, the lattice, and the girl,
The white rose, and the melancholy song —
Oh, Night, thy reign is over lovely things!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

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