Shadow Quotes
2258 quotes by 1362 authors
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Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong…
— Maria V. Snyder
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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
— Tomas Transtromer
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What is fear but courage's shadow?
— Jacqueline Carey
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Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt
— Ray Bradbury
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Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake…
— Yann Martel
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The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.
— Anne Michaels
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
— Margaret Atwood
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The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with…
— Dante Alighieri
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Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire…
— Ilsa J. Bick
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All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick…
— George R. R. Martin
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Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't…
— John Green
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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light…
— Haruki Murakami
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I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait…
— Brent Weeks
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I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything…
— Katherine Mansfield
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
— Ann Voskamp
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his…
— Michael Morpurgo
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The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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