#dark

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it’s the Beach Boys’ California Dreamin’. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they’ve put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. ‘Hear you’re a surfer boy!’ she says and she mimics riding a wave. ↗

— Amaya Ellman

#dark #dysfunctional-family #fear-and-suspense #fiction #psychological

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#darkness #deep #generate #i #i can

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#ashamed #cold #cold war #contemporary #contemporary history

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #because #dangerous #dark #early

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#beautiful #beautiful women #dark #get #gone

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark. ↗

— Monica Keena

#am #dark #i #like #really

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. ↗

— Helen Keller

#darkness #emptiness #fell #fingers #future

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#dark #get #girl-next-door #i #image

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. ↗

— Black Kettle

#been #began #cloud #dark #ever

The weather in England can really darken your spirits. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#england #really #spirits #weather #your