darkedinburgh

darkedinburgh, 18 hours ago to random

"A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs."

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

darkedinburgh, 1 day ago to random

"Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other."

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

darkedinburgh, 2 days ago to random

"He closed his eyes, and, from all sides as if from a distance, sounds fluttered, grew into harmonies, separated, blended, and again all mingled into the same sweet and solemn hymn."

• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

darkedinburgh, 3 days ago to random

"A fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deadly sick."

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

darkedinburgh, 4 days ago to random

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

darkedinburgh, 5 days ago to random

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."

• Macbeth, William Shakespeare

darkedinburgh, 6 days ago to random

"All seemed very peaceful and deserted and quiet."

• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

darkedinburgh, 7 days ago to random

'Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.'

• Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh, 8 days ago to random

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

darkedinburgh, 9 days ago to random

“The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things — or even to see the self-evident things.”
― G.K. Chesterton

darkedinburgh, 10 days ago to random

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

darkedinburgh, 11 days ago to random

“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

darkedinburgh, 13 days ago to random

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

darkedinburgh, 14 days ago to random

"Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones."

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

darkedinburgh, 15 days ago to random

"For glorious rose upon my sight."

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

darkedinburgh, 16 days ago to random

"Laid out in a neat line on a shelf so you could see everything, feel the sense of achievement from the vastness of things. This came from a time when seeking knowledge was a sufficient end in itself. Before we thought we knew it all."

• from Terra Exitus, by me

darkedinburgh, 17 days ago to random

“In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass –but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.”
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood

darkedinburgh, 18 days ago to random

"In the morning, I awake
My arms, my legs, my body aches
The sky outside is wet and grey
So begins another weary day"

• Grey Day, Madness

darkedinburgh, 18 days ago to random

"If I wait for you to go tomorrow another day will be lost; and I know I shall be unable to rest another night without having been."

• Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy

darkedinburgh, 18 days ago to random

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darkedinburgh, 19 days ago to random

"So, as you are now too old to wander abroad and work in a circus, I offer you a home here as long as you live."

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

darkedinburgh, 20 days ago to random

"I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future."

• The Time Machine, H. G. Wells

darkedinburgh, 21 days ago to random

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

• Christopher Columbus

darkedinburgh, 22 days ago to random

"And I am so frightened that they are afterwards obliged to take me out of bed, and show me the quiet churchyard out of the bedroom window, with the dead all lying in their graves at rest, below the solemn moon."

• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh, 23 days ago to random

“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.”
― Homer, The Odyssey