#shadows

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

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all. ↗

— James Michael Pratt

#light #shadows #life

How can one love the light and live in darkness? ↗

— Brent Weeks

#count-drake #night-angel #the-way-of-shadows #love

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#marks-left #moments #shadows #men

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #courage #faith #haiku #haikus

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid. ↗

— Bill Condon

#avidly #back #been #dark #dark shadows

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. ↗

— William Cowper

#ceremony #depend #eternal #fight #find

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! ↗

— O. Henry

#business #family #love #man #nothing

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ghosts #her #liza #mother #much