Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices. - Fakeer Ishavardas
There are some young almond tress, which ordinarily look as if drawn by a childish hand. Now, as the wind sets their weak branches gibbering, they seem like shamanistic scratches on the white bone of the brittle bright night. - John Collier
He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.