Quotes About Contrast

We all live under the shadow of a three century history that his pitted color against color and we all need to change. To me there are no people more capable of that change than people from here. We're not ignorant of what outsiders think. They see a mix of beautiful mansions from the 1800s, and weeds sky high in the next house over. But for me this area of the country is heaven. There's not place I'd rather travel than the South and no place I'd rather live in than Georgia." The Good Detective

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, 'This is the way it was.'

Harper prefers winter, when it gets dark at three thirty and is pitch black by the time she finishes her shift. The summer sun reveals too much.

You know what the happiest summer of my life was?" Kate asks. 'When you turned 13?' Jessie guesses. "I was 13 during the Great Depression, so no.

Shooter's absence is more powerful than Benji's presence.

they didn't have a lot in common in the way people understood that phrase. Rather, they were opposite sides of the same coin. They complemented each other, completed each other. They'd created a life that glowed.

by which I mean Tay-K, not Taylor Swift

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

You can achieve knowledge only through comparing the two sides, positive and negative, which have become separated from each other. As long as these two sides are together, resting in each other, you can't perceive or recognize anything.

how he was different from her, but the same too.

I go to taste simplicity. Not the simplicity of a golden age; but the simplicity of gold and tinsel.

In other circumstances, she would have found them an entertaining duo as they sat together on the sofa by the windows, the one as plump as a Christmas goose, the other as skinny as its skeleton after the diners had eaten their fill.

Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Di mana-mana terdapat rumput jelatang, Tapi rumput hijau yang lembut tetap lebih banyak, Kebiruan langit lebih luas daripada awan gelap.

Italy/Is one thing, England one.

Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes Than tears even can make mine... What hast though to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer...

Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness.

The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both. *

The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.

I press my steel hand to my cheek, taking comfort in the coolness of metal.

It was his grace and shame, he thought, that he could always find peace and clarity in the midst of ruin.

Will's breath smoked in raw air; he was surprised to notice that Murchaud's did not.

The worst of it was, he had come to like the Jacobeans, in all their sophipathic insanity. They might be grotesaries, caricatures, larger than life and full of violence-but they were also shockingly generous and, sometimes, shockingly funny.