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Quotes About Light

The sun is nearly audible.
~ Hisham Matar
the light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon.
~ Holly Black
He touches my cheek lightly with his fingers. 'You- I thought-' I stare up into his eyes, puzzled by his expression. 'Are you hurt?' he asks. I shake my head. The prince turns away from me abruptly.
~ Holly Black
Space is so dark that looking out at it confounds the brain. The more you stare at the vastness of it, at the hanging stars and the swirling galaxies, the more you start to notice how imprecise words like 'dark' and 'black' and 'endless' are. There are so many gradients of shadow, all of them terrifying to me. That's why I keep the lights on.
~ Holly Black
She looks incandescent with joy, his attention the light in which her beauty shines especially bright.
~ Holly Black
It's beautiful, no?' he asks, a little smile on his face. A light in his fox eyes. It is, of course. All of Faerie is beautiful like this, with carnage hidden just beneath.
~ Holly Black
It's supposed to be very beautiful, the Citadel,' Oak says. 'It is beautiful, Wren?' When the light went through the ice of the castle, it made rainbows that danced along its cold halls. You could almost see through the walls, as though the whole place was one large, cloudy window. When I was brought to it for the first time, I thought it was like living inside a sparkling diamond. 'It's not,' I say. 'It's an ugly place.
~ Holly Black
I feel light. I am unwinding. I am unfurling like a banner.
~ Holly Black
They streak past me in to the hall in a blast of gossamer.
~ Holly Black
Ah! A lady of mystery. My very favourite kind!' He's wearing a green doublet, with slits to show his silk shirt underneath. HIs fox eyes are alight. He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.
~ Holly Black
Papery moths fly above our heads, circling up as though tragically drawn to the light of the stars.
~ Holly Black
Rosy-fingered dawn appeared, the early-born.
~ Homer
A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~ Unknown
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~ Honore de Balzac
A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Quand les enfants commencent à voir, ils sourient; quand une jeune fille entrevoit le sentiment dans la nature, elle sourit comme elle souriait enfant. Si la lumière est le premier amour de la vie, l'amour n'est-il pas la lumière du cœur?
~ Honore de Balzac
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.
~ Unknown
Just let your light shine! That's about all you have to do. One of the things that this far-out righteous cat named Krishnamarti says is that you don't change the world, you change yourself. The world is a projection of yourself and you change the world around you.... That's how the world gets changed. (Gridley)
~ Unknown
to return to that shadowy time of preexistence, she thought, when there was nothing particularly pressing to do except the occasional somersault, no thoughts, just interesting sensations of light and sound, and no loneliness, because those other two versions of you, who had been there forever, were right there beside you, not going anywhere.
~ Liane Moriarty
We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
~ Unknown
My mind shine even when my thoughts seem dark.
~ Lil Wayne
And now from yonder hill the sun's bright beams Shine through the mist, and flood the world with light; The path winds on, leaving our broken dreams Of tangled briar and brake far out of sight. The dawn of hope has come our heart to cheer; The path before us shines in the sun's ray. We follow on, into the coming year, And in hope's sunshine greet each op'ning day.
~ Unknown
WordsWorth. Darkness Visible
~ Lily King
She poured me another drink and in the light breeze of her movements I smelled again the manufactured smell of these women.
~ Lily King