#shadow

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

What happened, then? You're stomping through every puddle you can find and look like you're going to punch the first person you see." "Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?" "Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty ↗

— Richelle Mead

#funny

People ask why are you so strange and I always reply why are you so normal... ↗

— Shadowstorm Norwicca

#shadowstorm #humor

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#fantasy #imagination #shadows #writing #imagination

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#the-grisha #life

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#shadowfever #life

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#shadow #waiting #life

... there are shadows because there are hills. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#shadow #life

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night. ↗

— Joe Meno

#shadows #vanishing #life

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love