Quotes About Contrast

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

With her it was like there was two places—the inside room and the outside room.

If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don't care-- and it is the person who doesn't notice you that are apt to admire.

numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges

Death went well with bare stone and it was the little crowd of modern men who looked incongruous.

When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation.

Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!

Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life; in life there is always balance. Life and death,male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found.

ÎnÈ›eleg cât de apropiate sunt fericirea È™i tristeÈ›ea. Atât de strâns legate. Separate de o linie atât de fin? care în mijlocul emoÈ›iilor tremur?, trecând linia de demarcaÈ›ie în teritoriul opus.

It doesn't feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened.

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

If there were not anxiety behind those apples, Cézanne would not interest me any more than Bouguereau.

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this. Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

Men are incomprehensible assholes, I said to Amelia. NO shit, she said. When I was searching for Bob today, I found a female cat in the woods with kittens. And guess what? They were all black-and-white.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy.

but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.