Behinds Quote by Eugene Fitch Ware

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“He put the x-ray up on the light screen: The tumor was a large white circle in the middle of the picture. It looked…

— Mike Lingenfelter

“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night”

— Richard L. Ratliff

If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in…

— Darryl Glenn

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I don’t know what to do.” “I think you do.” She goes quiet. “We’re missing this,” she says eventually. “Life. The dinner tonight, I’ll…

— Pierce Brown

“The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Dan Rather

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds…

— Amy Hempel

“Laughter layered the walls and clung to the dust mites, making them sparkle like lightning bugs in the daytime.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

“A firefly landed on Honor’s sleeve and began walking up her shoulder, its tail still blinking. As she craned her neck to look down…

— Tracy Chevalier

But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we…

— Stuart Dybek

“Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr