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Quotes About Shadow

He was angles and darkness, her opposite - a moon-creature to her sun, a slicing shadow to her glow. But that was all silhoutte. It was in his smile, and in his eyes, and in his waiting - he was still waiting - that she saw him, and knew him. Strength and grace and loneliness and longing. And hope.
~ Laini Taylor
Inside a dream. Within a lost city. In the shadow of an angel. At the brink of calamity.
~ Laini Taylor
He was quiet, and had a shadow's talent for passing unremarked,
~ Laini Taylor
They wielded blades called /hreshtek, sharp enough to slice a man off his shadow [...}
~ Laini Taylor
His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it—a city that had vanished in the mists of time.
~ Laini Taylor
He was copper and shadow, honey and menace,
~ Laini Taylor
We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.
~ lamott anne ii
Ty: Just words I like. If I say them to myself, it makes my mind - quieter. Does it bother you? Kit: No. I was just curious what words you liked. Ty: It's not the meaning, just the sound. Glass, twin, apple, whisper, stars, crystal, shadow, lilt. Kit: Whisper would be one of mine, too. Cloud, secret, highway, hurricane, mirror, castle, thorns. Ty: Blackthorns.
~ Cassandra Clare
Ty's not my shadow," said Kit crossly. "My apologies. I suppose you're his.
~ Cassandra Clare
Tell me, Matthew," James said. "Tell me the name of the shadow that is always hanging over you. I can become a shadow. I could fight it for you.
~ Cassandra Clare
When you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.
~ Cassandra Clare
You're not honey. Your'e wine. You're the deepest, darkest shadow under a tree on a blazing day. You're strong and hard, coursing like a current at the bottom of a river.
~ Cate Tiernan
I'm a monster," said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. "Everyone says so." The Minotaur glanced up at her. "So are we all, dear," said the Minotaur kindly. "The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Her father's shadow looked sadly down at her. "You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm a monster," said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. "Everybody says so." "So are we all, dear." said the Minotaur kindly. "The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind that breaks them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
If Fairyland-Below is Fairyland's shadow, what is the shadow of Fairyland-Below? What's under the underworld?" Ell laughed like thunder rolling somewhere far off. "I'm afraid it's underworlds all the way down, my dearest, darling flying ace.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will tell you how we made soup in those days: Hold a ration card over a pot of boiling water for thirty minutes, so that the shadow of the card falls on the broth. Then eat it up, and don't you dare spill a drop.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet (Pindar)
~ Gilbert Murray
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
~ Gilles Deleuze