"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road ... See MoreSee Less

New Year, this way... ... See MoreSee Less

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding ... See MoreSee Less

"This is reason expressed in stone. This is the Scottish Enlightenment given physical form."
- Alexander McCall Smith ... See MoreSee Less

"And so now, although the town lies blue and darkling on her hills, innumerable spots of the bright element shine far and near along the pavements and upon the high facades."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light."
- Robert Frost ... See MoreSee Less

"The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish."
— Mervyn Peake, Same Time, Same Place ... See MoreSee Less

“A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby ... See MoreSee Less

Hope you've all had an amazing day.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Scott x ... See MoreSee Less

Have a wonderful holiday time you lovely people.

The amazing work of Wintersixfour ... See MoreSee Less

"The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already—it had not been light all day—and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air."
— A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"A thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own... The gaslight... came only like a tiny red spark through the fog..."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula ... See MoreSee Less

"The Old Town, with its irregular houses, stage above stage, seen as we saw it, in the obscurity of a rainy day, hardly resembles the work of men. It is more like a piling up of rocks and I cannot attempt to describe what we saw so imperfectly, but must say that, high as my expectations had been raised, the city of Edinburgh far surpassed all expectations."
- Dorothy Wordsworth ... See MoreSee Less

"The very air was filled with a sense of festive expectation."
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace ... See MoreSee Less

"It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind... deadening and hushing the city."
- Truman Capote, Miriam ... See MoreSee Less