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

'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

"Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters." - Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

“What hath night to do with sleep?” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"The brass handles of the chest of drawers were as golden knockers; and the carved bedposts seemed to have some kinship with the magnificent pillars of Solomon's temple." - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

"Exit, pursued by a bear." - A Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'." - Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." - John Steinbeck

"It was now broad day, and she started again, emerging cautiously upon the highway." - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power." - Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities." - A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

"Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

"All these trivial incidents belonged to the routine of life, and the return of morning." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

"We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves." - Andy Goldsworthy

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality." - Frida Kahlo

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going." ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black." - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

"William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar in order to support his mistresses and to fund a gambling addiction."

"William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar in order to support his mistresses and to fund a gambling addiction."

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself." - Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things." - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

"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

“But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.” ― Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people." - Patricia Highsmith

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats

"But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away." - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows..." - John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.” ― Bob Dylan

"Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water..." - Down By The Water, PJ Harvey

"And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain" - My Way

“Tears rose to her eyes. It was the water of the hills, which could have saved her father, and instead wasted its richness in the sterile rocks and the subterranean night...” ― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

"Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird #photography

"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye." - Samuel Johnson #photography

“Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.” ― Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love #photography

“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 #photography

“She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness.” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse #photography

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #photography

"It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy." - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens #photography

"Winston could not now remember how he had come to be in the cafe at such a time." - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell #photography

"When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" - T.S. Eliot, The Rock #photography

If life gives you rain Make rainflections

""Nature is a merciful deity,” he said. “Her anger never lasts forever. The fire dies. The storm blows itself out. The flood recedes. And this will end as well. You’ll see. Get some rest." - Robert Harris, Pompeii #photography

Since *absolutely everyone* loved the recent "Where Am I?" quiz from Barcelona, let's do it again! This one is really very tricky...