Quotes About Contrast

I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.

Atlanta, Georgia—a city where little girls in $50 smocked dresses romp around on filthy playgrounds. Where every freshly birthed Southern baby gets two names and women wear pastel pantsuits to lunch. These ladies instinctively understand closed-toed shoes and slips and no-white-after-Labor-Day-unless-it-is-winter-white.

It's incredible. The kid could flip over a car without straining his back. I can barely pull up my pants without having to be rushed to the hospital.

How could such an innocent-looking pair of lips leave her feeling so... wicked? Worse yet, how could they reside on a face that was far from innocent? With thick dark hair that was just a fraction too long to be decent, piercing gray eyes, and the hard lines of his face, Dominic Mallory was sin embodied.

a gaudy beacon of hope amid all the uncertainty.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Alyssa couldn't tear her gaze from him as the firelight played over the hard edges of him. Once he'd been the poster boy for clean-cut military, now he'd gone all tatted up sexy danger.

You were light and life. You are heat, and I'm so damn cold.

Everything ye see is ours," he said. "What do ye think?" Mary's eyes shone. "I've never seen anything so beautiful." Her cheeks were pink from the wind, her lips red. "Or cold." "Aye, well, that's Kilmorgan for ye. Will enchant ye and try to kill ye at the same time." "Aren't most Scotsmen like that?" Mal shrugged. "'Tis a good point.

London after dark is a different place than in daylight. There is as much hustle-bustle as always, but now the gentry are out and about as well as less salubrious members of society - the inebriated, the ruffians, and the ladies looking to entice a man from the straight and narrow.

Which was he, then, savage or gentleman?

His hair was longer now, brushing the tops of his shoulders, and the weight of it made it hang straight and shiny. He'd lost more weight and gotten kind of tan. He looked about five years older. And then there was me, dressed as sushi.

a family was an act of creation, the piecing together of disparate fragments into one cloth -- often harmonious, occasionally clashing and discordant, but sometimes unexpectedly beautiful and strong. Without contrast, there was no pattern... and each piece... would endure if sewn fast to the others with strong seams -- bonds of love and loyalty, traditions and faith.

Medan Luna och jag långsamt gick tillbaka till cellen torkade den manliga våta saliven på min kind. Jag kunde känna fläcken i ansiktet i flera timmar efteråt, som om hans kyss hade lämnat ett märke på mig. Att få en kyss av en man i ett kvinnofängelse är en gåva som slår alla födelsedagspresenter och julklappar. Det är bättre än en rosen bukett. Det är bättre än en varm dusch

we woke as if from a nightmare only to find that the ugly are still not beautiful and the dull still do not sparkle.

It's kind of beautiful, this scary world. I still want to go out of it as soon as possible, but when I look around and stop thinking about how insane it all is and just see it without freaking out, it's really beautiful.

Beauty is not always pretty.

A powerful king has taken my heart, she thought. But a penniless boy has stolen it.

Roses have thorns, and thorns leave wounds.

I saw why Hunter had looked so horrified at the idea of me staying in his house. The walls were covered in glossy posters of fast cars and movie starlets wearing thongs.

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

Bennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record.

And it struck him that this was New York: a place that glittered from a distance even when you reached it.

The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.