Shadow Quotes - Page 38

• Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

  Hugh Howey

  Darkness, His Smile

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Moon, Purple, World

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.197, Xist Publishing

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• It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall. His hands slid down along her body and reached the end of her dress, drawing it up along her legs. "What are you doing?" She whispered. "Jace?" He looked at her. The peculiar light in the club turned his eyes an array of fractured colors. His smile was wicked. "You can tell me to stop whenever you want," he said. "But you won't.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Dark

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Light, Evil

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1344, Macmillan

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• He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

  Dorothy Koomson

  The End Of The Day, Dull, Ends

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• A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Lunch, Sunrise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason.” “Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hero, Angel, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

  Rumi

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• She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Trying, Noise

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• I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Dream, Mean, Dark

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I eyed Dimitri, recalling a shadow in my periphery back in the ballroom. "You followed when I jumped in front of Lissa, didn't you? Who were you going for? Me or her?" He studied me for several long seconds. He could have lied. He could have given the easy answer by saying he'd intended to push both of us out of the way-if that was even possible, which I didn't recall. But Dimitri didn't lie. "I don't know, Roza. I don't know.

  Richelle Mead

  Lying, Long, Roza

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.297, Penguin

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• I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Tired, Years

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• What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Looks, Rooms

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Flames, Sparks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.226, Penguin

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• I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

  Laini Taylor

  Mind, Hints, Want

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• as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Fighting, Promise

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Dark, Past

  1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

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• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

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• Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Character, Tree

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• Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Men, Soul

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• Where ever fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

  Jonathan dos Santos

  Inspirational, Fear, Mean

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• Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
  His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
  The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
  The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
  And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Simple, Love Is

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• And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

  Khalil Gibran

  Knowledge

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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