"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl ... See MoreSee Less

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde ... See MoreSee Less

"Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters ... See MoreSee Less

"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow."
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

"Yes, out of a dim, remote distance the road comes towards one, and while nothing save the sky and the light clouds through which the moon is cleaving her way seem halted, the brief glimpses wherein one can discern nothing clearly have in them a pervading touch of mystery."
- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol ... See MoreSee Less

"There was a serenity, a tranquillity, a calm sunset air about him, which quite affected me."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"'There,' said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas ... See MoreSee Less

"The bridge, no doubt, was too crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose."
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan ... See MoreSee Less

"There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo ... See MoreSee Less

"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."
- Stephen King, The Gunslinger ... See MoreSee Less

"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables ... See MoreSee Less

“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