Quotes About Contrast

The desk sergeant wasn't the usual mustached old warhorse who I had run into before, but a greying matron with steely eyes who disapproved of me and my lifestyle in a single glance

Naturally, both sides of the family seemed utterly normal to me at the time but a great deal less so in retrospect.

That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong side of that sheet of ice, in the cold sterile water, while the fire burnt at the farm and the smell of Christmas food seeped out of the kitchen. And above him always the criss-crossed pattern of his own skates.

He leant back to stare heavenwards, gently fingering the swollen skin around his black eye. But the river stank. Reduced by the heat like a good soup, it was sixty per cent ducks' piss with a hint of incontinent rat.

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas? Perhaps they mix too well.

She has the devil in her eye And holds an angel in her heart. She'll get you wrapped around her little finger And tear your mind a million miles apart. Her kiss is a cup of sunshine.

Que isso foi o que sempre me invocou, o senhor sabe: eu careço de que o bom seja bom e o rúim ruím, que dum lado esteja o preto e do outro o branco, que o feio fique bem apartado do bonito e a alegria longe da tristeza! Quero os todos pastos demarcados... Como é que posso com este mundo?

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.

for in contrast to the restrictions imposed on respectable Greek women who only went out of the house as a last resort and even then fully covered, their Egyptian sisters were not only allowed out, but attended market and 'are employed in trade while the men stay at home and do the weaving'. Further unnatural practices meant that Egyptian 'women pass water standing up, men sitting down'

A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

L'amore è l'unica costante in questo difficile mondo razionale, l'amore e la sua metà oscura, l'odio.

Nada há mais feio que dar pernas longuíssimas a ideias brevíssimas.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. (Jesse)