Quotes About Contrast

The old man, wrapped in a large black doublet, in which the whole of his slender body was concealed, was brisk and dry. His little gray eyes shone like carbuncles, and appeared, with his grinning mouth, to be the only part of his face in which life survived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony

A volte la gioia fa un effetto strano, ti opprime quasi come il dolore.

Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders

Sen de benim kadar uzun ya?asayd?n, zalimlikle yard?mseverli?in ayn? rengin iki tonu oldu?unu anlard?n.?#?romansokakta?

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.

There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.

In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light.

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

She was a great beauty, and in his experience that would bring her both good fortune and grief.

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person?

A fish and a sparrow cannot live in the same world. one will gasp for air and the other will drown.

He was pale as salt. Although

Our Mary Rose," he said, and kissed her head, as if he were bidding her a fond farewell. She laughed. There could be worse lives than this lonely one. There could be life married to someone like George.

The sand here, at their feet as they looked down from the dry cliff, was dark gray, the color of a thundercloud. The

Porém ela sabia agora que havia épocas em que o feio e o bonito serviam exatamente para o mesmo propósito, quando qualquer coisa para a qual se olha é apenas um gancho onde pendurar as sensações descontroladas de seu corpo e os bocados e pedaços de sua mente.

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.

Patrick had a trick-no, it was not a trick, Patrick had no tricks - Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to know something he did not. His arrogance and humility were both oddly exaggerated.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

It was ugly and precious all at once.

In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.