{"author":"H.P. Lovecraft","author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft","total_quotes":102,"quotes":[{"text":"You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form which lies on this couch. We shall meet again - perhaps in the shining mists of Orion’s Sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric Asia. Perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight; perhaps in some other form an aeon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["cosmos","death","dreams","friendship"],"id":9686,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["dance","dancing","life"],"id":15347,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["nightmares","sleep"],"id":18210,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["cats","cats-vs-dogs"],"id":23653,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"The cat . . . Is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["cats","cats-vs-dogs"],"id":25118,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["cats"],"id":30298,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["horror"],"id":33069,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvelous golden spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the southern gate, and was stopped by a red-robed sentry till he had told three dreams beyond belief, and proved himself a dreamer worthy to walk up Thran's steep mysterious streets and linger in the bazaars where the wares of the ornate galleons were sold. Then into that incredible city he walked; through a wall so thick that the gate was a tunnel, and thereafter amidst curved and undulant ways winding deep and narrow between the heavenward towers. Lights shone through grated and balconied windows, and, the sound of lutes and pipes stole timid from inner courts where marble fountains bubbled. Carter knew his way, and edged down through darker streets to the river, where at an old sea tavern he found the captains and seamen he had known in myriad other dreams. There he bought his passage to Celephais on a great green galleon, and there he stopped for the night after speaking gravely to the venerable cat of that inn, who blinked dozing before an enormous hearth and dreamed of old wars and forgotten gods.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["cats","dream","fantasy","lovecraft"],"id":39695,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["horror","weird-tales","writing"],"id":43850,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"},{"text":"Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.","author":"H.P. Lovecraft","tags":["gods","laws-of-nature"],"id":43923,"author_id":"H.P.+Lovecraft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":102,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}