“Wet darkness. Funny, darkness shouldn’t be wet. But it was. Like blood.”

Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War

“In darkness there is sin; in darkness there is death. Sin negates spirit; and the killing of beings without spirit can only be looked on as an act of charity.”

Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.

It lies behind stars and under hills,

And empty holes it fills.

It comes first and follows after,

Ends life, kills laughter.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit