Brennan

“Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. This alone began to draw an increased number of visitors, especially young couples locked in the rictus of Victorian courtship and needful of quiet dark places.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Few of the birds that Aemon had sent off had returned as yet. One reached Stannis, though. One found Dragonstone, and a king who still cared.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale