Darkness Quotes - Page 22

• A window within the soul to see Light and Magick I send with thee Be strong, be brave, make the right choice Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice Know that I am watching from above And that always, always, the answer is love!

  P. C. Cast

  Strong, Light, Voice

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.279, Macmillan

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• 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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• Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

  Neal Shusterman

  Blind, Impression, Knows

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.177, 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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• Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tunnels, Names

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• ...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Sun, Passing

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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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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• It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

  Lauren Oliver

  Night, Circles, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.33, HarperCollins

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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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• A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Self, Goes On, Want

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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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• But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Night, Watches

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Believe, Stones

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• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Breathing

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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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• Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

  John le Carre

  Children, Mistake, Home

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• Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

  Dan Wells

  Life Is Too Short, World, Our Lives

  Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.59, Macmillan

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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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