| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 702df23 | It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. | beautiful countryside experience john-watson london love rural-life sherlock-holmes sin smiling vile | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 4395d5f | "...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")" | countryside rural rural-life | Edith Wharton |