Quote by Nikolai Gogol

“It was a house of shadows, where the sunshine was filtered down to a guttering night-light strength between the laths of the window-shutters. (89)”

— Émile Zola

“A breath of air caught the bottom of the shade, brushed it, and a streak of golden sunlight flashed instantly into the room. Then,…

— Richard Jessup

“But why was the room suddenly becoming so dark? It was the middle of the afternoon. With a supreme effort Giuseppe Corte, who felt…

— Dino Buzzati

“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in…

— Marcel Proust

“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of…

— Jean Rhys

“The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what’s-all-thising around the room, which, like the bedroom,…

— Douglas Adams

“The sun was setting on Coruscant. Shadows ran like black water, filling up the the alleys first, then climbing steadily higher, a tide of…

— Sean Stewart

“...with Penge I associate my first realisations of the wonder and beauty of twilight and night, the effect of dark walls reflecting lamplight, and…

— Anonymous

“ceiling in the faint glow of the street light that filtered through the curtains and the nightlight that shined through the open bathroom door. …

— Brian Harmon

“It’s like you walk into a dark room, and there’s a sliver of pale light under a doorway on the opposite side. You open…

— Ben H. Winters