#darkness

Pausing in front of her, her mother brushed the hair back from her face and smiled sweetly at her before she kissed her brow. "You've changed much, my little treasure." A stinging wave of grief consumed her as she heard her mother's blessed voice again. Tears welled in her eyes. "I've missed you, Mama." -Seren and her mother, in a dream. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#seren #sword-of-darkness #change

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#darkness #tunnel #love

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#inspirational #light #poetry #shadow #inspirational

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#darkness #withces #men

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#aagen-s-joy #birthright #darkness #grief-in-chains #here-comes-the-sun

Sometimes it takes a walk through the darkness; to totally appreciate the light ↗

— L.M. Young

#inspirational #love #inspirational

It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival. ↗

— Mark W. Boyer

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness. ↗

— Landon Parham

#hope #inspirational #life #light #inspirational

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole ↗

— C.G. Jung

#inspiration #life #psychology #shadow #whole