Darkness Quote by Bastille

“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even…

— K.J. Wignall

“It was dark and dim all day. From the sunless dawn until evening the heavy shadow had deepened, and all hearts in the City…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail…

— Ismail Kadaré

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Then the storm came swiftly, first falling from the heavens, then doubly falling in torrents from the mountains and washing loud down the roads…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake…

— Mervyn Peake

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be…

— Christopher Fowler

“The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff…

— Harlan Ellison

“The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising sun. Only…

— Glen Duncan

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

— Markus Zusak