Quotation from: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Written by: Grenville Kleiser

Some like veiled ghosts hurrying past
as though driven to their land of shadows by shuddering fear

Some minds are like an open fire--how direct and instant
our communication with them

Something divine seemed to cling around her like some subtle vapor

Something resistant and inert, like the obstinate rolling over
of a heavy sleeper after he has been called to get up