Quotes About Contrast

half man and half marble.

Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion.

Bougainvillea bloomed on their porch like a discarded prom dress.

We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations;

river and is very old and water stained in ways that would delight a painter and trouble a contractor;

We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations; it is the salt in the pudding.

She is talking about the birds, awakening in harmony and bedding down in discord.

We are all having different experiences.

He chose a Lessian costume- jeans and a cowboy shirt, only slightly wrong- and made his way south along the hillside, toward the house.

It was nothing like the rest of the city, no hills or views or bohemians, nothing Italian or Victorian to make you take a photograph.

Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship.

If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, and if we conquered the weather and declared permanent sun, would we not miss grey days and summer storms?

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

So they blew something up, he thought. Wasn't that close - just a big-calibre gun. If it had been close, it would have thrown me out of bed. And if the shell had hit the house, I'd have stayed in my dream, where it's cosier and warmer than in life.

Rather darkness than the illumination of the unclean.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

who looked like she chewed on jasmines and spat out nails.

She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.

Era triste per quello che era successo a Kostos. E da qualche parte era triste perché gente come Bee e Kostos, che avevano perso tutto, erano ancora aperti all'amore, e lei che non aveva perso nulla non lo era.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

Lena felt that all pretty faces were all alike—straight, even, regular. It was the ugliness, the sadness that set them apart. Lena couldn't find that much objective ugliness in hers. But the sadness was apparent.

example of one of the big differences between Kristy and me. I was wearing a very short pink cotton dress, white tights, and black ballet slippers. I had swept all of my hair way over to one side, where it was held in place with a piece of pink cloth that matched the dress. Only one ear showed, and in it I had put my big palm tree earring. (Kristy was not wearing any jewelry.)