Quotes About Contrast

You don't recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.

It was his wife we objected to. Her name was Leda, but he called her Tip. She was very small and her hair, eyes, and skin, though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat- she perched on things - and liked to cock her head a little to one side. Nora had a theory that once when Edge opened an antique grave, Tip ran out of it,...

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

I think my teeth provide a necessary respite from the eerie perfection of everyone else's.

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

Luther glanced at the framed prints on the nightstand and wryly observed the twenty-something "little woman" next to the seventy-something husband. There were many types of lotteries in the world and not all of them state-run. Several

Help me. But no one had. And the Bonhams had a nice big house and drove a Bentley. Sometimes Archer just wanted to shoot life right in the face.

She was as unlike my father as it was possible to be." "Well, they do say opposites attract." "But can opposites exist together for the long term?

He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.

Some make you sing and some make you scream, One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache, Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. - Sweet Thing

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can't remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?

La luna si levò sopra la prateria e sembrava succhiare via tutti i colori dal paesaggio circostante; adesso tutto appariva diverso. I cespugli lungo il letto asciutto non erano verdi ma neri e avevano un che di minaccioso.

When you behold the face of pure evil, it will be beautiful.

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.

Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

Imagine the day after the Berlin Wall came down if everybody in East Germany was plump and comfortable-looking and dressed in Caribbean pastels, and you'll have a pretty good idea what the Fort Lauderdale Airport terminal looks like today.