Beacons Quote by Roberto Bolano

Even in the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these street were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that…

— Unknow

The streets were dark with something more then night.

— Raymond Chandler

The streets were dark with something more than night.

— Raymond Chandler

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when…

— Charles Dickens

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone…

— Frederick Lenz

“As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual candle-power. It was difficult to…

— Thomas Pynchon

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the…

— Giorgos Seferis

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come…

— John Burnside

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest…

— Robert Frost

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

— W. S. Merwin

It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

— Emily Dickinson