Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary

— Anonymous

“It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his…

— R.A. Salvatore

“She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All the mystery and witchery…

— Kate Chopin

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“The ravenous, rabid poet awaits the midnight moon. She’ll trick and out wit her unsuspecting lover, the beginning of a bloody swoon.”

— Melody Lee

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write…

— Larul Andrews

“COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL   In the deserted park, silent and vast, Erewhile two shadowy glimmering figures passed.   Their lips were colorless, and dead their…

— Paul Verlaine

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson