You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.
... being different, being unique ... that afforded me a life, a journey that I am now so thankful for.
I’d be afraid of a man with two shadows, because that man is my clone, and he probably wants to kill me.
She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
Do not wander in the deeps, Where the Shriker's shadow creeps. When he rises from beneath, Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.
Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.
Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.
Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.
Psalm 57:1--Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.
