Quotes About Duality

It was no longer light versus the dark, but one spectrum of light against another.

Part of him was beautiful, a creative, sensitive soul. But there was another part, a part perhaps hinted at, which I had not yet truly seen.

Half of him wanted to pull Finnigin close, absorb his flesh, because of their similarity. The other half of him was repulsed, unnerved. Finnigin's expressions, being more mobile than Ays; seemed a parody.

Akahana was dizzying, mainly because it seemed to be several different places at once. On the surface, it was all hustle and heat, yet Shan was immediately aware of a dark and inscrutable undercurrent-magic hanging in the air, as Sinaclara had foretold. It also seemed as if if the ancient past was very close to the present and that it would be possible, either accidentally or otherwise to slip between the two.

You can't bear to think that Valraven is like the rest of us-a mixture of attributes, both good and bad.

The serpent has the potential to be used for good or evil. It represents the creative force or building blocks of the universe, which is dualistic.

Only hours before, I had been poignantly balancing on the rim of a terrible abyss, my heart and head full of profundity; now I was living in a nightmare of farce.

No one can walk the way of light without casting a shadow.

A true magus understands he has to dance on both sides of the coin. Utter goodness is as bad as pure evil.

You are a violent young man, which is quite at odds with the more mystical side of your character, which I am assured exists.

As I said, he danced on both sides of the coin; master on intrigue and cunning and devoted lover to a damaged man.

It was the sea that injured her. Why should its produce heal her?

Will we ever get a taste for that? It is like sugar and spice mixed with bile.

There are two sides to every story, Pharry, and each of those sides can argue that they are right.

He felt as if a sober part of himself still resided in his brain, observing the behavior of the part of him controlled by the Witch.

I had an inkling there was a razor-sharp intellect, a shrewd individual within the fluff of Livvy's persona. There was another side to Sacramante, something which I'd caught an echo of as a girl, something that intrigued and seduced the unwary. Liviana was an intiate of its mysteries, but I knew I'd never learn its secrets from her.

To Shem, there seemed to be no difference between an act of cruelty or of love.

You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

But you are human, and just like the rest of us you have the potential to be both a devil and an angel. There's no such thing as an evil race, just a human race. --Cressida

When I was twelve years old I conjured up for myself a marvelous trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My deduction was that God, thinking himself, created the second person of the godhead, but that to be able to think himself he had to think his opposite, and thus had to create it.—That is how I began to philosophize.

I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.

When we make love you and I are both sacred and secular.

Joelle is not convoluted but simple, not sullen but sunny, yet she has the extensive clandestine life of a career criminal, and this used to enthrall Sarah. Now Joelle appears stripped bare, her essence exposed. She's just a party girl, overeager to be liked.

I start the show, and the armour goes on, and the showman comes out. When the show is finished, that comes off, and I become soft centred again.