"He drew back a little. She had not seen him, and he watched her for a while without her suspecting his presence. Her small foot tapped impatiently on the ground. Her eyes, dark with a kind of smouldering fire, had a queer kind of suffering dark triumph in them. She was looking out across the Nile where the white-sailed boats glided up and down the river."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
"Nothing in life is easy. Don't expect things to be given to you; you have to go out and get it"
Word of the day:
Gloomy - (adjective) dark or dim, deeply shaded, like in gloomy skies; causing gloom; dismal or depressing, gloomy prospect; filled with or showing gloom; sad, dejected, or melancholy; hopeless or despairing; pessimistic, a gloomy view of the future.
* Some parts of life seem dark and gloomy, while others are bright and colorful.
* Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.
* Others live in the murky shadows of nondescript neighborhoods and the gloomy light of urban nightclubs.
Imaginary Place of the day:
The Abbey - (...) The most notable of all the abbey's buildings was the library housed withing the Aedificium. Entrance to the library was possible either through the Aedificium itself, whose gates were jealously guarded by the head librarian, or by a secret passage through the ossarium. (...)
Umberto Eco, Il Nome della Rosa, Milan, 1980
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