Shadowy Quote by Richard Yates

“Neon flickered in brilliant colors on the really fancy buildings, while the older blocks and the ones under scaffolding were dark and unlit. Everywhere…

— Jia Pingwa

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every…

— Jim Atkinson

“Before us the thick dark current runs. It talks up to us in a murmur become ceaseless and myriad, the yellow surface dimpled monstrously…

— William Faulkner

“In the dark glass where the road poured down their cigarettes rose and fell like distant semaphores above the soft green dawn of the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with…

— Jules Verne

“1969 Pontiac Trans Am. It was painted flat black with green metal flake flames up the hood, over the roof, and down the trunk,…

— Tate Jackson

“His shadow stretched out across the asphalt, a man on his way to make good an old wrong, his shadow, the dark doppelganger with…

— Hansjorg Schertenleib

“At street corners, where walls join, I thought I could see some familiar features, like outlines of human faces, the shadows of cheekbones and…

— Ismail Kadaré

“I was nineteen at the time, prowling the streets and alleys with my usual supply of hot dogs, the street lights with their foggy…

— Fynn

“In the wee small hours, California Highway One north of Half Moon Bay is about as desolate as it gets. The narrow, twisting road…

— H.P. Oliver