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darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"Projecting over a narrow mountain-path there hangs an old feudal castle."

• Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them."

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions."

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

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose."

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

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall."

• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"At the first glance I was reminded of a museum."

• The Time Machine, H. G. Wells

darkedinburgh, 1 month ago to random

"On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm."

• The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"You start in April and cross to the time of May
One has you as it leaves, one as it comes
Since the edges of these months are yours and defer
To you, either of them suits your praises.
The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm,
Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle."

• Ovid

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Perhaps it had been intended as a counterpart, but there was not the slightest difference to be seen between it and the first picture, there were the trees, there the grass and there the sunset."

• The Trial, Franz Kafka

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country."

• Dracula, Bram Stoker

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind."

• Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"If they feel as we feel they may stop."

• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors."

• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Without the fire we can't be rescued."

• Lord of the Flies, William Golding

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"And looking along them, with reverently shaded eyes, a bridge of light appeared to span the air between him and the sun, while the river sparkled under it."

• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"I stood staring into the pit, and my heart lightened gloriously, even as the rising sun struck the world to fire about me with his rays."

• The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all."

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Close on its apparition, and blindingly violet by contrast, danced out the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead."

• The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"It was exactly the kind of detail that might betray you."

• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"The church with the slender spire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there then to tell me the time."

• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"By this good light, this is a very shallow monster."

• The Tempest, William Shakespeare

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"It, the future, behaves like the past."

• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse."

• Macbeth, William Shakespeare

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

darkedinburgh, 2 months ago to random

"The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars."
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald