Lake Quote by Jane Urquhart

“The table was a pool of candlelight -- so bright that the rest of the room seemed almost black, with the faces of the…

— Dodie Smith

“Entering by a wide gateway, but without gates, into an inner court, surrounded on all sides by great marble pillars supporting galleries above, I…

— George MacDonald

“Have you prepared a candlelit table for dinner in a forest where twilight reigns? Some may call this dazzling table, elegantly lit, a fantasy…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door.”

— Sibella Giorello

“On its third rising only a portion of the drawing-room was disclosed; the rest being concealed by a screen, hung with some sort of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was like a globe with a thousand facets; it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“...leaving the air crystal and sweet and the dusty, used leaves sparkling. The lake surface was a diamond-dusted, dancing indigo...”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“A dozen or more boats on the lake swung their rosy and moon–like lanterns low on the water, that reflected as from a fire.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The only light came from the windows of those houses she passed that had open curtains, revealing little tableaux of family life: the young…

— Jojo Moyes

“Bright lamplight bounced off golden varnished wood. The suddenly vivid colors of scarves, hats, hair and faces after the gray-green gloom they’d been immersed…

— Antonio Dias

“With the candles on the table, the space becomes a luminous cocoon”

— Lucy Foley

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see…

— John Burnham Schwartz