I found a glimmering brown skull in the snow. I could not tell if it was mortal or god, and there seemed a sobering moral in that. - Tanith Lee

I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.

There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.

The plague came to be called Yellow Mantle. Men must name everything, as if, by giving it a name, they will decrease the nameless horror they experience.