Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty…

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning…

— Charles de Lint

“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and…

— Roman Payne

“A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to assist in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the…

— George Orwell

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“It grew darker, and thus harder to read, as the sun peacefully, sank to bestow a new life on other people. Hamza, sinking into…

— Refaat Alareer

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise…

— Edward Hirsch

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read…

— Penn Jillette

“As every schoolboy knows, comics do not stand alone at microphones in the dark. Indeed, we cannot even read them in the dark. We…

— R.C. Harvey

Travelers should only read after dark.

— Robert Harbison

If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once.

— Timothy Morton

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.

— Cassandra Clare

“The heart can be a mysterious organ, the heart and its movements. Dark, the Spanish call it. The dark heart, el oscuro cotazón. Are…

— J.M. Coetzee

I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

— Patricia Piccinini

“I am yours. Dark heart, body, and soul. And you, my lovely siren, you are all mine.”

— Vivian Arend