City Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

“...the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams…

— Margo Lanagan

“In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which seen from…

— Franz Kafka

“Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn…

— Virginia Woolf

“The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil…

— A.F. Stewart

“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all…

— Alaska by James A. Michener

“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The dark has a eased a little. There has been a street-lamp burning, that has lit the threads of the bleached net scarf hung…

— Sarah Waters

“Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky: Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggling cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold,…

— Maria Semple

“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the…

— Malcolm Lowry

“There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“When, on a moonlit night, you see a wide village street with its peasant houses, haystacks, sleeping willows, tranquility enters the soul; in this…

— Anton Chekhov

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz