#shadow

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#shadow #unrequited-love #love

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark times? My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #respect

So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? - Shella ↗

— Krista Alasti

#fantasy #humor #krista-alasti #shifters #taming-shadows

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#shadow-kiss #vampire-academy #adrian-ivashkov

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ↗

— Aesop

#grasping #lose #shadow #substance #you

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#alarming #bright #bring #complacent #consequences

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#belong #body #does #inn #morning

No, I can just read you. Finally. I can't believe how blind I was. I can't believe I never noticed. Victor's comment...he was right." She glanced off at the sunset, then turned her gaze back on me. A flash of anger, both in her feelings and her eyes, hit me. "Why didn't you tell me?" she cried. "Why didn't you tell me you loved Dimitri? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #shadow-kiss #vampire-academy #anger

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#around #black #circle #dead #drag

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows