darkedinburgh
@darkedinburgh.bsky.social
Photographs of the dark side of Edinburgh. Usually one a day.
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"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl
- Roald Dahl
November 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl
- Roald Dahl
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
"Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
"Yes, out of a dim, remote distance the road comes towards one, and while nothing save the sky and the light clouds through which the moon is cleaving her way seem halted, the brief glimpses wherein one can discern nothing clearly have in them a pervading touch of mystery."
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Yes, out of a dim, remote distance the road comes towards one, and while nothing save the sky and the light clouds through which the moon is cleaving her way seem halted, the brief glimpses wherein one can discern nothing clearly have in them a pervading touch of mystery."
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
"There was a serenity, a tranquillity, a calm sunset air about him, which quite affected me."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"There was a serenity, a tranquillity, a calm sunset air about him, which quite affected me."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
"'There,' said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"'There,' said the sentinel, pointing over his shoulder to a spacious crypt, hollowed out of the rock, the lights from which shone into the passage through the large arched openings."
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
"The bridge, no doubt, was too crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose."
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"The bridge, no doubt, was too crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose."
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan
"There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice."
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is almost as treacherous as ice."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"...or easterly mists, coming up with the blue evening, fuse all these incongruous features into one, and the lamps begin to glitter along the street, and faint lights to burn in the high windows across the valley."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"...or easterly mists, coming up with the blue evening, fuse all these incongruous features into one, and the lamps begin to glitter along the street, and faint lights to burn in the high windows across the valley."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes
"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
- Albert Camus, The Fall
- Albert Camus, The Fall
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
- Albert Camus, The Fall
- Albert Camus, The Fall
"Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
"We have so much to say, and we shall never say it."
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"We have so much to say, and we shall never say it."
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
"The human heart is my school."
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"The human heart is my school."
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
"One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind."
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind."
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There is some sort of festivity being prepared at that."
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"There is some sort of festivity being prepared at that."
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
"All his life, it seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"All his life, it seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
"I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns."
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Clerk Maxwell
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns."
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Clerk Maxwell
"At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known."
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
"Each moment I expected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness; but all was dark."
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Each moment I expected to see the glare of lamps through the blackness; but all was dark."
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Dracula, Bram Stoker