Quotes About Contrast

And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. —John 1:5

I started my illustrious career with a pitchfork in my hand and saddle soap in my pocket. Idly he tugged a white blossom from the vine, tucked it into her hair. The gesture flustered her-the easy charm of it-and made her remember they were walking in the moonlight, among the flowers. Not,she reminded herself, a good idea.

Her voice was soft and flowing, and though he recognized it as Deep South, it seemed almost a foreign tongue after the coastal Maine cadence he'd grown used to. He wasn't a man to be pleased with having a magnolia blossom tossed on his doorstep. When she opened her eyes and smiled at him, Grant wished fervently he'd never opened the door.

Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

He didn't look the way he used to, but neither did he look

She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they sought was a killer. The state of his mind, his emotions, perhaps even his soul, didn't matter to Ben. Maybe they couldn't.

inside her. So different from an

Há pessoas que têm aqui uma bela vida - comentou baixinho - Plantam jardins em canteiros e fazem piqueniques no verão. - E algumas pessoas vivem em palácios e não conseguem ter uma boa vida.

Sparks made a pretty light, but they could also burn.

While shadows are never dispelled completely, it is due to them the light shines bright.

It took some time for Boomers to reach their "uncomfortable analysis" phase. This stands in contrast to Generation X, who entered that phase immediately and never left.

This is a very common paradigm held in small towns. If somebody who grew up in your community wins a Nobel Prize, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board; if someone from your town grows up and becomes America's most depraved serial rapist, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board. It's just nice to see someone doing anything.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel's face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful . . . Tyler told me later that he'd never seen me destroy something so completely.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction