Quotes About Contrast

I stare up at a busy construction pit. Tiny white spades are tossing huge quantities of darkness around. Stars—these are the stars.

I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the arc of the rainbow becomes its opposite. But what is the opposite of a bird? Or for what matter, a human being? And what then, in the great rain forest, where, in its season, the rain never ceases and the rainbows are myriad?

And Darcy was so perfect, he was just plain boring.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

She and Harriet Warner were worlds apart not only in looks, but also their place on earth–a monarch butterfly and a luna moth. Each had been dropped into lives that were polar opposites, traveling along different longitudes lines destined never to intersect.

Mum Paula says that she has two very different boys. 'I could put it like this: Rami stands for reason and Kimi for action. When it's Kimi, if there's the smallest gap, he'll slip past. Rami is more of a gentleman, so that if someone catches up with him, he might think, Go on, pass. If Kimi sees the tiniest chink, he'll exploit it.

Längtan är en lek. När den växer till allvar, kallas den ångest.

contrast! To live in peace, without

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Das Ãœbel gedeiht nie besser, als wenn ein Ideal davorsteht

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

The view from the apartment's one window was of another building's gray ferroconcrete wall, which was intermittently lit by the white neon flicker from the Ringer Hut noodle shop sign across the street. As

She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow

She taught me not to block out ugliness by giving imagined beauty false dominion: but that on the other hand, in the midst of hatred and ugliness there is color, there is life, and there is ...personal usefullness... as well.

Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of exorcism against "saleslady," "old lady," "ladylike." Relishing the anachronism, even the formality a type of aphrodisiac, a contrast to our delight in the horny, the vulgar, the vernacular which we cultivate just as ardently.

The thought gave me reassurance for a split-second - until I saw the danger in it. The power to make me feel better also gave her the power to hurt me. With love came fear. It's like sun and shadow. How do you separate them?

Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.

It was as grim a social scene as I'd ever encountered, and I missed everything I'd left behind at home. I wondered what my nail polish collection was doing right now.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

The night felt both eternal and instantaneous.