I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.

"Wine is bottled poetry

“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”

“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that cont…”

“Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; cert…”

“(...) brzemię życia musi przytłaczać ludzkie barki, kiedy zaś człowiek próbuje …”