I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be…

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think…

— China Mieville

“Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at any minute.…

— Laura Kreitzer

“I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.”

— Malcolm Lowry

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say…

— Elizabeth I

False friends are like your shadow; they follow you in the sun, but leave your side when it gets dark

— Anonymous

Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“I'm a shadow of my former self," she announces. Vinny was a shadow to begin with, now she's a shadow of a shadow.”

— Kate Atkinson

A shadow is here. The shadow with heart. And, a shadow is coming of sun

— Mayte

If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of my only best friends would be my shadow, and my shadow isn't always there. Sometimes ahead of me. Sometimes behind me. Sometimes…

— Guardian/Hommie G

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in…

— Sylvia Plath

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and…

— Haruki Murakami

“Shadow? What is shadow when all is night? Nothing is shadow at all!”

— P.S. Clinen

Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and…

— Haruki Murakami

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

— Anne Lamott