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Quotes About Shadows

I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.
~ Bram Stoker
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door
~ Bram Stoker
But for the rest nothing amused him; nothing satisfied him. All was shadows, emptiness, echoes and dust.
~ Susanna Clarke
It is January and I am arriving at an English country house in Yorkshire. Fog and rain shroud the park. The interior is a dim labyrinth of splendid but desolate rooms, full of winter shadows and echoing footsteps.
~ Susanna Clarke
Ela usava um vestido da cor das tempestades, das sombras e da chuva, e um colar de promessas quebradas e arrependimentos.
~ Susanna Clarke
Nigger-eye Berries cast dark Hooks -- Black sweet blood mouthfuls, Shadows.
~ Sylvia Plath
Day now, night now, at head, side, feet, They stand their vigil in gowns of stone, Faces blank as the day I was born, Their shadows long in the setting sun That never brightens or goes down. And this is the kingdom you bore me to, Mother, mother. But no frown of mine Will betray the company I keep.
~ Sylvia Plath
His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugee's.
~ Sylvia Plath
Farther out, the waves will be mouthing icecakes— A poor month for park-sleepers and lovers. Even our shadows are blue with cold. We wanted to see the sun come up And are met, instead, by this iceribbed ship, Bearded and blown, an albatross of frost, Relic of tough weather, every winch and stay Encased in a glassy pellicle. The
~ Sylvia Plath
Es kam mir vor, als müsse Schatten das Schönste auf der Welt sein, die Millionen beweglicher Formen und Sackgassen des Schattens. Schatten fand sich in Kommodenschubladen, Wandschränken, Koffern, und Schatten fand sich unter Häusern, Bäumen, Steinen, auch fand sich Schatten ganz hinten in den Augen und im Lächeln der Leute, und Schatten, Meilen und Meilen von Schatten, fand sich auf der Nachtseite der Erde.
~ Sylvia Plath
On Fridays the little children come To trade their hooks for hands. Dead men leave eyes for others. Love is the uniform of my bald nurse. Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. The vase, reconstructed, houses The elusive rose. Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows. My mendings itch. There is nothing to do. I shall be good as new.
~ Sylvia Plath
Habría un hoyo negro de seis pies de profundidad en el duro suelo. Esa sombra se uniría con esta sombra, y el peculiar suelo amarillento de nuestra localidad sellaría la herida en la blancura, y otra nevada borraría la novedad en la tumba de Joan
~ Sylvia Plath
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. The vase, reconstructed, houses The elusive rose. Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows. My mendings itch. There is nothing to do. I shall be good as new.
~ Sylvia Plath
The things I thought were real are shadows, and the real Are what I thought were private shadows.
~ T.S. Eliot
Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows.
~ T.S. Eliot
We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was there. How did shadows become our only dwelling?
~ Tad Williams
So, he does not. Is it his fault? If he is the magician's slave he has no choice about what he will do in the matter of shadows. Have I a choice if Old Ash tells me to get wood?" "Wood and shadows are not the same.
~ Tanith Lee
Silly girl, he does not cast a shadow." "So, he does not. Is it his fault? If he is the magician's slave he has no choice about what he will do in the matter of shadows. Have I a choice if Old Ash tells me to get wood?" "Wood and shadows are not the same.
~ Tanith Lee
Imagine an infinite love that is unconditional. That can't be provoked or threatened. In that love you'll see fear for what it truly is: a shadow." She was beside herself with joy. "Imagine that! Shadows that we've gone into agreement with. But in love, the Fury vanish, because there is no fear in love, just like there's no darkness in light.
~ Ted Dekker
In this world you will have troubles," he said. "It's okay. They are all only opportunities to let go and see yourself as you truly are. Be glad, because the light has overcome and all those troubles are only shadows.
~ Ted Dekker
La satisfacción se convirtió en algo más intenso: felicidad. Felicidad porque había sido ella la que había borrado las sombras de sus ojos. Quería disiparlas para siempre.
~ Julia Quinn
ils faisaient des ombres avec des couleurs claires (they made shadows with bright colours)
~ Julian Green
She thought that heartbreak might just give his character the shadows and corners and angles it needed to make it truly interesting. To deepen and shape it. She was sorry she would be the one to help make him truly interesting. But she'd never apologize for falling in love with a man who already was.
~ Julie Anne Long
Toliko sam kofera zatvorio u životu, tolike sate proveo pakuju?i prtljag sa kojim nikada nisam putovao, da je ?etvrtak bio dan pun senki i remenja, jer kad vidim remenje za kofere kao da vidim senke, delove nekog bi?a koji me šiba posredno, na najsuptilniji i najužasniji na?in.
~ Julio Cortazar