#shadows

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#children #comes #friendships #gay #having

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it. ↗

— Ariana Franklin

#art

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. ↗

— Evita Peron

#mirror #see #shadows #sun #themselves

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#darkened #dawn #enough #every #life

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#face #fall #shadows #sun #turn

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#actually #background #conflict #darker #day

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#fear #great #half #i #i do

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#every #hot #light #lot #murder

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love. ↗

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#love #religion #love

There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!" ... "Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#children-s #humor #mythology #serpent-in-the-shadows #humor