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Quotes About Light

I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You're toast." I felt like toast, burning with anger inside my waterproof layers. "I am not, " I insisted. "I might be lightly browned on one side.
~ Jennifer Echols
What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening," I watched him scribble, and I made out his tiny drawing of a martini glass, with olive. It wasn't often that I got to study him like this, concentrating, in full light. He gently bit his soft bottom lip. .... "You're sexy when you threaten people.
~ Jennifer Echols
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
~ Jennifer Egan
The sky above the buildings outside their apartment windows is the color of a dusty chalkboard, and the light coming down onto the street is exactly the color of boredom.
~ Jennifer Egan
At night, far from shore, stars pulse with a strength inconceivable in the proximity of light.
~ Jennifer Egan
I began to settle down. The sun was low, the light rosy, the scrubby flora a parched, iridescent silver. The emptiness of the desert felt biblical, as if nothing had ever happened there—as if all of history were yet to come.
~ Jennifer Egan
At a bar addiction is normalized, made to seem a regular part of living: the warm light and familiar faces, friendship or the illusion of it. Addicts are lonely creatures.
~ Jennifer Haigh
I'm a jellyfish glowing in the dark sea, bright and brilliant, just waiting to be discovered.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
There is a bright full moon, and boats in the harbor are lit up and dancing in the inky water.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.
~ Jennifer Niven
then you will shine among them, like stars in the sky
~ Jennifer Niven
The sun was catching his hair and lighting him up from the outside, and love was lighting him up from the inside.
~ Jennifer Niven
There are bright places, even in dark times. And if there isn't, you can be that bright place with infinite capacities.
~ Jennifer Niven
The rhythm of life runs in cycles. There are times in the darkness and times in the light. The energy of life is like the rain forest in Borneo. Things live, grow, die, fall to the forest floor, rot and then they are born again-Olympia Dukakis
~ Ellyn Spragins
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
~ Emerson
De meeste schaduw in dit leven veroorzaken we door in ons eigen zonlicht te gaan staan.
~ Emerson Ralph 1831-1914
The air there was heavy with the somnolence of a party prolonged into the early hours; and a dull light came from the lamps, whose charred wicks glowed red inside their globes. The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other the story of their lives.
~ Émile Zola
inlaid in Florentine mosaic, the very flower-stands placed in the recesses of the windows, oozed and sweated with gold. At the four corners of the room were four great lamps placed on pedestals of red marble, to which they were fastened by chains of bronze gilt, that fell with symmetrical grace. And from the ceiling hung three lustres with crystal pendants, streaming with drops of blue and pink light, whose hot glare drew a responding gleam from all the gold in the room.
~ Émile Zola
Bir tek tutkum var; Bunca ac?lar çeken ve mutluluÄŸa hakk? olan insanl?k ad?na duyduÄŸum ayd?nl?k tutkusu. CoÅŸkulu protestom, yüreÄŸimden kopan ç??l?ktan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Beni a??r ceza mahkemesi önüne ç?karmay? göze als?nlar ve herkesin önünde soruÅŸturma aç?ls?n! Bekliyorum.
~ Émile Zola
Ses peintures sont blondes et lumineuses, d'une pâleur solide. La lumière tombe blanche et large, éclairant les objets d'une façon douce
~ Émile Zola