Dark Quotes - Page 27

• His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• . . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Waste, Traps, Creatures

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2007). “The Phoenix Unchained: Book One of The Enduring Flame”, p.283, Macmillan

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• It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?" My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I had to stare down at Azarte for a minute, petting him hard. Naturally Luka had a "lady friend." She was probably nobly born: the daughter of a count or a duke. I imagined her having thick dark hair and clear skin, and was bitterly jealous. "Of course," I stammered after a time. "What would she like? A gown? A sash?" If she came in for a fitting, I decided to "accidentlly" poke her with every pin.

  Jessica Day George

  Daughter, Jealous, Heart

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• ...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

  Eve Ensler

  Pain, Loneliness, Speak

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.

  Tim O'Brien

  Moving, Night, Fire

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fire, Sound, Want

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• This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.' With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. 'They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Thinking, Hair, People

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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• I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

  Emily Dickinson

  Years, Light, Needs

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Fire, Would Be

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• Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, Sigh Of Relief, Way

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.60, Grove Press

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• I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Sleep, Kissing

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Night, Land

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.139, Penguin

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• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Book, Oddities

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• He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height

  Gustave Flaubert

  Night, Sea Breeze, Ivy

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.56, U of Nebraska Press

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• Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.

  Vera Nazarian

  Laughter, Loss, Hands

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• Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Night, Aggressive, Shiver

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.28, Laurel Leaf

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• In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

  Arina Tanemura

  Names, Demon, Born

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• All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

  Gary Snyder

  Water, Waiting, Mind

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• Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Snakes, Light, Forever

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• The clan of heroes, the clan of compassion,the clan of destiny." (Firestar on Thunderclan, secrets of the clans) No matter what trials we must endure, Windclan will last forever."(Tallstar on Windclan, secrets of the clans) We are grace. We are power. We are Riverclan."(Leopardstar on Riverclan, secrets of the clans) Shadowclan will always be the dark heart of the forest." Blackstar on Shadowclan, secrets of the clans)

  Erin Hunter

  Hero, Heart, Destiny

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• A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Feet, Faces

  Song: Dark Eyes, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Caverns, Stills, Candle

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wedding, Mirrors, Perfect Days

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• Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Fall, Boys

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