"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Betrayed)

"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
"Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

"...I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. (Savitar)"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

"The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.'
"
— Shel Silverstein (Batty)

"Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should be aware of?" [smiles] "Oh, you have no idea.
"
— Harvey Dent, Alfred Pennyworth

"Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm."
— Madeleine L'Engle

""You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box abd cover it with wet weeds to die?

"Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity. "
— Stephen King

"Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?"
— Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son: Stories)

"Luke: Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No.... Quicker, easier, more seductive."
— George Lucas (Star Wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)

"It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright."
— Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla)

"I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all."
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark."
— Wallace Stevens

"Fear doesn't stop at a fence"
— Karen Braucher (AQUA CURVES)

"Darkness promotes speech."
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

"Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.
Morning arrives and that's it.
Sunlight darkens the earth."
— Charles Wright

""You don't know what's after the desert?"

Kennerly shrugged. "Some might. The coach ran through part of it fifty years ago. My pap said so. He used to say 'twas mountains. Others say an ocean... a green ocean with monsters. And some say that's where the world ends. That there ain't nothing but lights that'll drive a man blind and the face of God with his mouth open to eat them up." "
— Stephen King

"'My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'

'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'

Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed."
— Stephen King (The Dark Tower)

"In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"Any battle-seasoned general will tell you that, even in a small-scale engagement (as this one was), there always comes a point where coherence breaks down, and the narrative flow, and any real sense of how things are going. These matters are re-created by historians later on. The need to re-create the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place."
— Stephen King

""Te escribiré - dice Takahashi .- Unas cartas tan extremadamente largas como las que salen en las novelas antiguas.""
— Haruki Kurakami