Cities Quote by Derek Landy

The streets were dark with something more then night.

— Raymond Chandler

The streets were dark with something more than night.

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Markus Zusak

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

“Night is the permanent revolution, that of the globe. Every sundown the streets change, becoming sinister or libidinous, or, for that matter, longer or…

— Lucy Sante

“As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual candle-power. It was difficult to…

— Thomas Pynchon

It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets…

— Charles Dickens

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet…

— Anais Nin

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The streets were awash with blues and grays – suspended in the air, bouncing off buildings, reflecting off car windows – as Brooklyn neared nighttime.”

— Abby Slovin

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest…

— Robert Frost

“Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred every detail…

— Théophile Gautier