Quotes About Shadows

Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the Rose of Fire.

Durante anos fugi sem saber de quê. Julguei que, se corresse atrás do horizonte, as sombras do passado se afastariam do meu caminho. Julguei que, se criasse suficiente distância, as vozes da minha mente se calariam para sempre.

Éste es un mundo de sombras, Daniel, y la magia es un bien escaso.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

Un vincle de silenci i mirades els unica en les ombres d'aquella casa, al final d'un carrer oblidat, on es tenien cura l'un de l'altre, lluny del món.

I'll tell you a story, (…) A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times…

Te vas en sombras, pensé. Como viviste.

Esta es una historia de libros. De libros malditos, del hombre que los escribió, de un personaje que se escapó de una de sus novelas para quemarla, de una traición y de una amistad perdida. Es una historia de amor, de odio y de los sueños que viven en la sombra del viento.

Éste es un mundo de sombras, y la magia es un bien escaso.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset.

Exist? lucruri care nu se pot vedea decât pe întuneric.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely.

She discovered a city of shadows, one no longer inhabited by my father

She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.

Una historia de libros, de dragones y de rosas, como manda la fecha, pero sobre todo una historia de sombras y ceniza, como mandan los tiempos…" (de los fragmentos perdidos de El Prisionero del

Some things can only be seen in the shadows," my father said, flashing a mysterious smile probably borrowed from the pages of one of his worn Alexandre Dumas romances. Night watchmen still lingered in the misty streets when we stepped out of the front door. The lamps along the Ramblas sketched an avenue of vapor that faded as the city began to awake. When

The night belonged to gaslight, to the shadows of narrow side streets shattered by the flash of gunshots and the blue trace of burned gunpowder. Those were years when one grew up fast, and with childhood slipping out of their hands, many children already had the look of old men.

Una historia de libros, de dragones y de rosas, como manda la fecha, pero sobre todo una historia de sombras y ceniza, como mandan los tiempos…

It was a perfect summer evening. The warmth of the late afternoon sun had released all the scents of the garden and a sea breeze touched the leaves just enough to make them tremble. The sky was lavender and the garden was a deep green, filled with cool shadows.

He was glad of an excuse to walk in the moonlight with Nancy. As they followed the road that wound in and out along the river, Ned felt only the romance of the evening. But Nancy's thoughts kept reverting to the mystery. It was an eerie night. Now and then clouds would obscure the moon, causing grotesque shadows to flicker across their path.

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

He looked at the daylight shadows of a yellow hue, dancing with the firelight shadows in blue on the whitewashed chimney corner, but there was nothing in shadows.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind—or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.