"Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo ... See MoreSee Less

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost ... See MoreSee Less

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus ... See MoreSee Less

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables ... See MoreSee Less

"An indescribable ray of joy illumined that wretched countenance like the last ray of the sun before it disappears behind the clouds which bear the aspect, not of a downy couch, but of a tomb."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas ... See MoreSee Less

"In this process the chamber and its furniture grew more and more dignified and luxurious; the shawl hanging at the window took upon itself the richness of tapestry; the brass handles of the chest of drawers were as golden knockers; and the carved bedposts seemed to have some kinship with the magnificent pillars of Solomon's temple."
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy ... See MoreSee Less

"Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same."
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ... See MoreSee Less

"Exit, pursued by a bear."
- A Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare ... See MoreSee Less

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'."
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves ... See MoreSee Less

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck ... See MoreSee Less

"It was now broad day, and she started again, emerging cautiously upon the highway."
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy ... See MoreSee Less

"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein ... See MoreSee Less

"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters ... See MoreSee Less

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities."
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare ... See MoreSee Less