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Quotes About Light

Yo, I feel this been the truth of all our time together. We always been a grief that huddle close against a vicious light.
~ Sandra Newman
The gleaming stars all about the shining moon Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth with clear silver light.
~ Sappho
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.
~ Sarah Dessen
I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.
~ Sarah Dessen
This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
~ Sarah Dessen
The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be.
~ Sarah Dessen
More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly by, but from then on, we would never be fully in the dark again.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.
~ Sarah Dessen
In just seconds I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
~ Sarah Dessen
Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one neon sign lit in the window of a narrow storefront. COFFEE AND PIE, it read. Two bikes were parked just outside. On the boardwalk, in the thrown light of the neon sign, his head dipped down as I pulled my fingers through his hair. The night still in progress, with daylight hours away.
~ Sarah Dessen
I closed my eyes and saw not the flat black of the dark but something else. Something brighter, closer to light, shining small but ever steady. More than enough to go on as a part of me pushed up and out, finally, to meet it there.
~ Sarah Dessen
It wasn't morning. The room was dark, with the moon big and yellow and hanging just where I'd left it in the corner of the window.
~ Sarah Dessen
The light shifts around the dais to the scratching of the chalk on the page, each line careful, considered, the result of a singular communion between the eye and the hand.
~ Sarah Dunant
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
~ Sarah Manguso
I don't know how I stay alive. What I do know is that there is a light, far above us, that goes out when we die, and that in Hell there is a gray tulip that grows without any sun. It reminds me of everything I failed at, and I water it carefully. It is all I have to remind me of you.
~ Sarah Manguso
Suddenly the light came on at the back of her parents' house, flooding the yard. "Is there somebody out there? Amy, is that you?" her mother called. "No. Tell me this isn't happening." Quinn rested his forehead against hers. "Has she got a wiretap on you or something? I swear, she's like a walking hard-on detector.
~ Sarah Mayberry
one candle will light ten thousand.
~ Sarah Vowell
And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.
~ Sarah Weeks
I said, The darkness shall content my soul; God said, Let there be light. I said, The night shall see me reach my goal; Instead, came dawning bright. I bared my head to meet the smiter's stroke; There came sweet-dropping oil. I waited, trembling, but the voice that spoke, Said gently, Cease thy toil.
~ Sarah Williams
Though my soul may set in darkness It shall rise in perfect light I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night
~ Sarah Williams
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
~ Sarah Williams
Hay?r, böylesine ac? çekme gücünü kendinden alm?yor o. Bu güç ona d??ar?dan geliyor...Åžu bulvardan. Kolundan tutup ????a, insanlar?n aras?na, pespembe sokaklara götürmeli onu. Orada böyle ac? çekilmez, yumuÅŸay?verir, güven dolu halini bulur ve her zamanki ac?lar?n?n düzeyine iner.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
The power of love grows from inside, whereas the power of the sword is imposed from the outside. Like a tree grows from a seed, the power of love grows from the self; seek your power within and be your own light.
~ Satish Kumar
Instead I often felt unusually light and swift-paced, as if I were on a weightless bicycle and sprinting through the star world.
~ Saul Bellow