"The bright morning was full of threats and the circle began to change."
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding ... See MoreSee Less

"I sat up in the freshness of the morning, trying to remember how I had got there, and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair."
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

"And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray."
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville ... See MoreSee Less

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
― Robert Burns

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"Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore."
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville ... See MoreSee Less

"In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark narrow courts, and was forced along them at a pace which rendered the few cries he dared to give utterance to, unintelligible."
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo ... See MoreSee Less

"We live not for ourselves, but for others. What we make of ourselves we make not for ourselves, but for others…"
- Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin ... See MoreSee Less

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."
- Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ... See MoreSee Less

"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."
- Oscar Wilde ... See MoreSee Less

"This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.*
- J.R.R. Tolkien ... See MoreSee Less

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker ... See MoreSee Less

'He breakfasted heartily, and caring little, as he said, for the beauties of the Eternal City, ordered post-horses at noon."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas ... See MoreSee Less

"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