City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Over the diversely high rooftops the light lets its hands slip away until, in the unity of those same rooftops, the inner shadow of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“His vision crawled with ghost hieroglyphs, translucent lines of symbols arranging themselves against the neutral backdrop of the bunker wall. He looked at the…

— William Gibson

“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I fix on…

— Margaret Laurence

“He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades,…

— Taylor Brown

“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

“Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire…

— Ben Mezrich

“Then in the darkness and purity of the meadows he began to feel that the world had many secrets, that they were shattering even…

— Mark Helprin

“He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange.…

— Philip K. Dick

“Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light”

— Alan Brennert

“Man is so used to thinking visually that I almost forgot the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of wood and glass in its…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the…

— Iain M. Banks