hey retired in the daytime to their dens, where they hid themselves from the roc, their enemy, and came out only in the night.””

Excerpt from “The Story of Sinbad the Voyager” The Arabian Nights – Their Best-Known Tales

 nd I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Mirror of Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring

 e must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples.”

– Virginia Woolf, Orlando

 llan admitted that the difference between madness and genius was subtle, and that he couldn’t with certainty say which it was in this case, but that he had his suspicions.”

– Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared