Into the Darkening Fog Quotes

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

“Writing all this now—and some weeks have gone by since I started—it is lifeless and insipid and useless. Only at the time, there was something, a thought that propelled me. Always, in looking back, there was something, and at the time I am aware of it, and the creation goes on and on in my mind while I look at all the faces around me in the tube, the restless rustle of newspapers, the hiss of air as the doors close, the enaction of life in a variety of form.”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. There”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

“where night is folding herself to sleep naturally”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

“here under the lamps are floating islands of pale light through which pass quickly bright men and women, who, for all their poverty and shabbiness, wear a certain look of unreality, an air of triumph, as if they had given life the slip, so that life, deceived of her prey, blunders on without them.”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

“The ghost story was also a hugely popular form for Victorian women writers, enabling them to discuss gender dynamics, sexuality, the constraints of domestic life and other taboo topics.”
― Elizabeth Dearnley, Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City