“Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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