Light Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The viewless air seemed to be flocking with hidden listeners. The very clearness and the crystal silence were their ambush. He alone seemed to…

— Walter de la Mare

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“I’d seen little chunks of light from the dark, somber man that I’d met, but once I’d broken through his impressive walls, he blazed…

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening,…

— Georges Rodenbach

“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright…

— Hella S. Haasse

“No lights shone beyond the windows of his room. The reflection from the bedside lamp seemed insubstantial as a candle flame; the darkness outside…

— Elizabeth Hand

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo

“Something was moving; there was a kind of breathing brightness in the air, the wind of God brushing by, invisible in sunlight.”

— Mary Stewart

“His vision blurred to haze, the sounds of feasting stilled, and from every dark corner, shadows streamed toward him until they reached the dais…

— Patricia Bracewell

“Overhead, a fluff of a cloud was framed with pure golden light from the sun that was hidden from her view. Awed by the…

— Delia Parr

“If he was the sweet, terrifying darkness, I was the glittering light that only his shadows could make clear.”

— Sarah J. Maas