“Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords ... See MoreSee Less

“One is always at home in one's past...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

Guess the year? ... See MoreSee Less

"His large blue eyes seemed to expand as he gazed around the assembly, and his countenance appeared elated by the conscious dignity, and imaginary merit, of the part which he was about to perform."
- Ivanhoe, Walter Scott ... See MoreSee Less

“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning ... See MoreSee Less

"It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions."
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

“There are two forms of friendship: meeting and separation. They are indissoluble. Both of them contain some good, and this good of friendship is unique, for when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. As both forms contain the same good thing, they are both equally good.”
― Simone Weil ... See MoreSee Less

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check."
- M.C. Escher ... See MoreSee Less

"There was something wild and uncanny about the place. We could hear the distant howling of wolves. They were far off, but the sound, even though coming muffled through the deadening snowfall, was full of terror.
- Bram Stoker, Dracula ... See MoreSee Less

"What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my heart's blood stop
Or strikes a Sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up?"
— W. B. Yeats ... See MoreSee Less

"Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins."
- Gustave Flaubert, November ... See MoreSee Less

“You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk, even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness.”
― H.G. Wells , The Time Machine ... See MoreSee Less

*Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person"
- Sylvia Plath ... See MoreSee Less

"Not so faintly now as they come near the bridge; and in a moment, as they pass the darkened windows, the silence is cloven by alarm as by an arrow."
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce ... See MoreSee Less

"That night a memorable event occurred, due, no doubt, to the imprudence of some servant who had neglected to extinguish the lights."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas ... See MoreSee Less