Quotes About Contrast

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

But what affords the one with happiness affords the other with disgust. The interplay, the ridiculous interplay, enough to kill all and everyone

the same Celebrity Cruises brain trust responsible for the wildly seductive brochure has decided to make certain elements of pre-embarkation as difficult and unpleasant as possible in order to sharpen the favorable contrast between real life and the 7NC experience.

Nipples like pencil erasers, hard and corrective against wide shallow breasts whose broad curves I know like the Lake's own tired sweep.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden

La végétation en Kabylie est dense, contrairement aux régions d'Algérie peuplées par les Arabes. Les Arabes détruisent les arbres, les Kabyles les plantent. Il

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.

contrast between His first and second comings. He entered the world the first time in swaddling clothes; He will reign the second time in majestic purple. He came the first time as a weary traveler; He will return the second time as the untiring God. Once when He came, He had nowhere to lay His head;

She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

Beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

Wishing the best for you, knowing it was the worst of me.

This was how we'd always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.

It's like I've landed in the most perfect place in the universe. And then it blows up.

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

So much happiness can only make me sad.

the killing blow is sometimes the softest

i hold the cigarette like i'm in a black-and-white movie. but when jed lights the match, it spreads to color, his skin in the campfire light, the spark of his eyes as he leans in to me

New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves.

A mismatch is the only kind of match that's worth making.

jed is not a smoker but he's smoked. i am not a smoker and i have never smoked

My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be. But on the cherry tree, there's this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.