"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

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End ... See MoreSee Less

“Come then, pure hands, and bear the head
That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.”
― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam ... See MoreSee Less

"The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind."
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

"In her nightmare, there had never been any lights, only gray fog."
- Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell ... See MoreSee Less

“And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ... See MoreSee Less

"They seemed to swarm over the place all at once, till the lamplight, shining on their moving dark bodies and glittering, baleful eyes, made the place look like a bank of earth set with fireflies."
- Dracula, Bram Stoker ... See MoreSee Less

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ... See MoreSee Less

"A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.'
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle ... See MoreSee Less

"A change of speed, a change of style
A change of scene with no regrets
A chance to watch, admire the distance
Still occupied, though you forget"
- New Dawn Fades, Joy Division ... See MoreSee Less

"I've done considerable in the doctoring way in my time."
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ... See MoreSee Less