Quotes About Contrast

With one she loved she would be fire and flower and flood. But with any other, worthless, cold, and useless.

He met Roilant's gaze with two eyes more clear than the clearest winter sea, and rather colder.

The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.

Draum om nedsnødde bruer Med vi står fell snøen tettare. Kåpearmen din blir kvit. Kåpearmen min blir kvit. Dei går mellom oss som nedsnødde bruer. Men nedsnødde bruer er frosne. Inni her er det levande varmt. Varm under snøen er armen din ei sæl vekt på min. Det snør og snør på stille bruer. Bruer ingen veit om.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. He paused. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal.

I turned and saw her—the beautiful woman who was either a Fury of a totally different kind than any I'd imagined, or an angel.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

And she was alone. Alone in the middle of crowded London, in the middle of a large and loving family. It was hard to imagine a lonelier spot.

At the rectory, she debated acknowledging she was back on the job by wearing clericals, versus pissing the new deacon off by meeting her in her civvies. She compromised by wearing a black blouse, dog collar, and subdued black cardigan over a pair of old undress-green fatigues. "Interesting look," Lois said when Clare checked in for a report on the past week. "It's a clerical mullet," Clare said. "Business on the top, party on the bottom.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

ils faisaient des ombres avec des couleurs claires (they made shadows with bright colours)

Recuerdo que lo feo es lo que hace que lo bonito sea bonito.

How astounding that life can be so cruel one moment, and so generous the next.

Perhaps the lesson is this: Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.

and she would always love him, but deep down, they had nothing in common. She had to be honest.

Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

I … there is a great discrepancy between

Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself.

She drained the pasta and looked out the window over the sink. In the middle of the street, paying no attention whatsoever to oncoming cars, two little boys were jousting with hockey sticks while riding bicycles, their mother observing through a fog of cigarette smoke and a beer. Human beings, Janet thought, were a disappointment.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.

The beautiful must be incongruous.