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Book now available for pre-order at edinburgh.photos
Dark pictures of Edinburgh, 1 a day.

"If you look in the eyes of the young, you see fla

"If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light."
- Victor Hugo

"They dared not peer down into their own natures,

"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."
- Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over ti

"Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached."
- Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” ―

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
― Voltaire

“It was but imagination, yet imagination had all

“It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality; nay, it was worse, for the reality would have come and gone, and there an end, but in imagination it was always coming, and never went away.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

Just back from the @simoncommscot Street Reads lib

Just back from the @simoncommscot Street Reads library after dropping off a copy of the book. Brilliant facility and great to meet the team who do such great work.

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk,� but no flowers grow on it."
- Vincent van Gogh

"Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the

"Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."
- Paul Gauguin

"He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul o

"He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings."
- Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O

"Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate."
- Wilfred Owen

Today I sent £800 to @simoncommscot as a donation

Today I sent £800 to @simoncommscot as a donation of the proceeds from the book. This was possible because of all of you who bought the book and, of course, the amazing @obversebooks. Can't thank all of you enough.

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. B

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”
― Guy de Maupassant

"Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony

"Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony. It's a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her."
- from the film Amélie

Many thanks again to everyone who ordered the book

Many thanks again to everyone who ordered the book. They are getting sent out now as quickly as possible. There are still some available from the first print run.

https://darkedinburgh.obversebooks.co.uk

And if postage is expensive to your country, there is the print on demand paperback version...

https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/scott-m-liddell/dark-edinburgh/paperback/product-vnk995.html

If your book has arrived already, what do you think? Thanks to those who have fed back/posted photos already!

"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just

"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“And then all of a sudden, I see you and it happ

“And then all of a sudden, I see you and it happens to me that I love you, in a way that it is not possible to say it... "
- Marcel Pagnol, Manon Des Sources

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new ro

“Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

"He succeeded in being considered totally unintere

"He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted."
- Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Not Edinburgh but I thought this was worth sharing

Not Edinburgh but I thought this was worth sharing. Just back from this incredible place and, as you can see, I got lucky with some incredible weather. For those that don't recognise it, this is the Old Man of Storr on Skye sitting proudly above a cloud inversion.

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