Quote by Rachel Hawkins

“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

“That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a…

— Jim Butcher

“Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.”

— Joe Simpson

“I could see the corridor window, where the wires-six thin black wires-were doing their best to slant up, to ascend skyward, despite the lightning…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Only the very top of the arched ceiling remained in shadow, as though some dark creature lurked there, devouring all light that strayed too…

— Miyuki Miyabe

“Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.”

— Christopher Morley

“Our room swallowed light whole. Even in summer when sunlight glared through the windows, it was somehow dim inside. Now it was only Easter…

— Mason West

“Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“he nodded and pointed up a staircase just inside the door. The stairs were dark and dusty, no hint reaching them of the bright…

— Michaela Thompson

“Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you can all together…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“Shades of its former grandeur were still evident in the curving staircase, the chipped marble entryway floor, and the wide single-paned skylight overhead”

— Cassandra Clare