I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in…

“A silence. Then he laughed, softly and unwillingly. “Well done, Vasilisa Petrovna. I have never been gainsaid in my own house before.”

— Katherine Arden

The thought sometimes - the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable…

— Nikita Khrushchev

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

— Virginia Woolf

“They jogged along in silence, Jem playing with the thong of the whip, and Mary aware of his hands beside her. She glanced down…

— Daphne du Maurier

It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows.…

— Bailey White

“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Even in the dark your shadow is like a guide to me! you are my rising sun that brings forth hope just as it…

— Nkemjika Linus

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

— Hugh Howey

Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and…

— Alexander the Great

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

— Neil Gaiman

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

— Charles Dickens

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

— William Hague

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are…

— Anonymous

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

— Adam Zagajewski