Quotes About Contrast

When you see the worst you appreciate the best.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

Some cracks let the light in. Some let the darkness out.

Armand Gamache had expected to need a few moments to adjust to the dark interior. He hadn't expected that he'd need to adjust to the light.

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!

I said to Mum, "Vati is very very like David Beckham, isn't he? Apart from being porky, heavily bearded and crap at football.

You are cold and flame. You are the crimson of amaryllis, The silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, My heart is a frozen pond Gleaming with agitated torches.

Een zuivere schim in een vervuilde schepping.

It was as though a choir had been told not to sing harmoniously, but to sing their own songs, and to ensure that they were heard above the rest. I'm sure you can imagine what a deafening cacophony it would be.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

Darkness, you know, is relative.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

but I used to think, Josef says quietly, that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers. (pg 134)

A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

She is quiet for a moment. have you ever been swimming in the summer, she asks, when a cloud comes in front of the sun? You know how, for a few seconds, you're absolutely freezing in th water and you think you'd better get out and dry off? But then all of a sudden the sun's back out and you're warm again and when you tell people how much fun you had swimming you wouldn't even think to mention those clouds. Cara shrugs. That's what it's like, with my father. -Cara

tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.

the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.