Stephen Crane, The Red Badge Of Courage Quotes

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.