Darkness Quotes - Page 17

• The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look--and remembered to open your eyes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Eye, Sight

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• There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

  Rick Yancey

  Light, Might, Labor

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Eye, Mouths

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.649, Simon and Schuster

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.

  Obert Skye

  Opposites, Frustrated, Levels

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• Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Sleep, Night

  J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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• They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

  Karen Maitland

  Blessed, Men, Waiting

  Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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• Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, ‘Hello, I’m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?

  Richard Kadrey

  Tattoo, War, Thinking

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

  Rachel Vincent

  Shadow, Skins

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.17, Harlequin

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• She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

  Stephen King

  Light, Long, Overcoming

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• I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true - If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Care, Honest

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.602, Simon and Schuster

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• Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

  Louise Erdrich

  Light, Ravens, Bird

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

  Francine Rivers

  Light, Remember

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Wind, Funny Things, Paris

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.31, HQN Books

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• How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

  Umberto Eco

  Dungeons, Looks, Clear

  Umberto Eco (1997). “Foucault's Pendulum”

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• Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Darkness Within, World, Assuming

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.462, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Fate, May

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• In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Angel, Light

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• Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.

  Loretta Chase

  Cutting, Hands, Voice

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.194, Penguin

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• The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they hold true, forgetting the me I once knew, until you. The life I walk eternally was all I knew nothing more held me here to this earth until you. I feel the pain of every heart I take I feel the desire to replace all that I have grown to hate Darkness holds me close but the light still draws my empty soul The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do it’s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.

  Anne Ursu

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

  Emily Bronte

  Wall, Rain, Autumn

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• And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me...everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.

  Knut Hamsun

  Song, Air, Voice

  Knut Hamsun (2015). “Hunger”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Way, Seducing, Darkness Inside

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.97, Macmillan

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