“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion ... See MoreSee Less

"So, in the low dens and high-flying garrets of Edinburgh, people may go back upon dark passages in the town’s adventures, and chill their marrow with winter’s tales about the fire."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"...or easterly mists, coming up with the blue evening, fuse all these incongruous features into one, and the lamps begin to glitter along the street, and faint lights to burn in the high windows across the valley."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
- Albert Camus, The Fall ... See MoreSee Less

"Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ... See MoreSee Less

"We have so much to say, and we shall never say it."
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front ... See MoreSee Less

"The human heart is my school."
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand ... See MoreSee Less

"One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind."
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky ... See MoreSee Less

"There is some sort of festivity being prepared at that."
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky ... See MoreSee Less

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger ... See MoreSee Less

"All his life, it seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell ... See MoreSee Less

"I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns."
- James Clerk Maxwell ... See MoreSee Less

"At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"Each moment I expected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness; but all was dark."
- Dracula, Bram Stoker ... See MoreSee Less

"It seemed quiet and simple. If I could write my Fiction again now it would simply read 'Quiet and simple'. That would be a good life. This one was just too confusing."
- from Science Fiction, by me. ... See MoreSee Less