“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.”
― The Call of Cthulhu
― The Call of Cthulhu
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.”
― The Dunwich Horror and Others
― The Dunwich Horror and Others
“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
― Candide
― Candide
“The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.”
― Delhi Is Not Far
― Delhi Is Not Far
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