Dark Quotes - Page 36

• And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Teacher, Art

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• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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• we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Half, Imagine, Made

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.2775, Penguin UK

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• Thrust the sword into the dark

  Obert Skye

  Thrust

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Lying, Party

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, Harper Collins

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• In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Light, Doors, Community

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• The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  White, Fire, Nine

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.346, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

  Tom Perrotta

  Lying, Minutes, Irreplaceable

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• Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Blow, Boys

  "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

  Ron Rash

  Philosophy, Men, Complaining

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• His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hero, Eye, Hair

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• I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Adults, English Words

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• On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Heart, Ice

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• We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fire, Fairytale, Love Each Other

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• Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hands, Cry, Ends

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Nice, Smart, Caves

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Fun, Lucky

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• I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.591, Delacorte Press

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• Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.

  Hilary McKay

  Rain, Rose, Doe

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Happens, Seems

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

  Anna Godbersen

  Life, Boys, Gentleman

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, School, Glasses

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• Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

  Dan Brown

  Age, Suggestions, Force

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• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Hunting, Eggs, Smell

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• Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

  Isaac Asimov

  Marriage, Futility Of Life, Taught

  "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

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