“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

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan ... See MoreSee Less

"Wake from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today, we escape, we escape"
- Exit Music (for a Film), Radiohead ... See MoreSee Less

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"I was naturally most occupied with the growing crowd of little people, and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious."
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

"They were in the dark, and little spots of colour swam before them."
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

"An hour or so before, the gas was turned on; lamplighters scoured the city; in every house, from kitchen to attic, the windows kindled and gleamed forth into the dusk. 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

"When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ... See MoreSee Less

"Before we had taken many paces down the street beyond it, the noise of the city seemed to melt, as if by magic, into a softened distance."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

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