Shadows Quotes

“Shadows were largest just before sunset, but lost their power when night inevitably fell. For Shadows don't exist in the dark.”
― Melissa Blair, A Broken Blade

“The Suli believe that when we do wrong, we give life to our shadows. Every sin makes the shadow stronger, until eventually the shadow is stronger than you."
"If that were true, my shadow would have put Ketterdam in permanent night."
"Maybe," Inej said, turning her dark gaze to his. "Or maybe you're someone else's shadow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Everything casts a shadow," he begins. "Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Don't believe the truths told to you by the light. The brightness you're used to casts the most vicious of shadows.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“The only way you'll hurt my feelings is hurting my friends', because that's when you'll see the real me come from the shadows.”
― Aurora

“My shadow said to me, ‘what if I told you that I am your soul.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“No friend can love you like your shadow.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“He tipped his head up. "Do you think that stars have shadows?"
She followed his gaze. They were close enough to Springfield for light pollution to dull the night skies, but galaxies still spangled above them. The moon had marched nearly to the end of her night, ready to stagger to her own bed at dawn.
"I guess if there's some brighter star," she said, thinking of lying on the couch months ago, a deep-voiced man explaining the universe on her television while she tried to convince herself to apply for a new job. "Like the kind that's about to become a black hole. Don't they flare first?"
Vince nodded. "Quasars. They flare as they're dying. I guess that would give any other star nearby a shadow.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“It feels like he's always in my head, whether he's speaking to me or not, just sitting in the shadows of my mind, silently watching me.”
― Valerie Claussen, HEIRDOM

“If you've seen a shadow and haven't been able to find its owner, or if you've seen a person but haven't been able to find his shadow, then you have good reason to be afraid!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shadows are the ones who rejoice the most at the sunrise, because there is no shadow in the darkness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I dreamed of shadows that night, vast shadows that blotted out the sun, and I called out to them in my desperation, but they did not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“I long for all I’ve lost and the witch old woman tells me that the shadows which go away always return.”
― Maria Polydouri

“I desire peace, but dread to face the shadows in order to find it. Vulnerability is difficult. It's as fragile as shards. It takes forever to piece back together but only seconds to destroy.”
― David Grinnell, Ashes

“The student asked: Master, what would you do if your shadow suddenly left you? Were you afraid? The master replied: No! I would rejoice for my shadow that he was finally freed from imitating me!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The sun was soft honey and rose colored along the horizon; the old trees were deep black silhouettes against it, with long purple shadows sliding out from their earth-slippered feet.”
― Marti Healy, The Secret Child

“The newspaper was always behind the news, not in front. You shouldn't ever go to the papers for information. They usually printed what they thought people wanted to see, and they had no explanation to give. It wasn't the king they saw. That wasn't the king at all. It was the king's shadow. [...] The shadow king was a part of the English tradition. The English, the boy said, were fond of shadows. [...] Somebody asked if you were ever talking to a real man or a shadow when you talked to an Englishman [...] Some of them were the man and the shadow at the same time, but more shadow than man. [...] It was always difficult to distinguish between the man and the shadow, and sometimes it was all shadow. (p.49)”
― George Lamming

“Я уже пережила любовь, пережила смерть.
Хуже точно быть не может.”
― Катарина Зек, Adriana zwischen den Welten

“If you don't love your shadow, it means you don't love yourself either!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Outside, the wind was growing louder—now the trees beyond the window, like mourners, bent beneath the fury of the storm, and against the window, tracks of rain spilled sideways like lead. Dr. Stein walked to the window and pushed it up, old wood creaking and water blowing in onto his skin, cold. The darkness held only shadows but still he stared into it. He leaned his head out further, gripping tightly to the sill and pulling in. When he closed the window, the sudden barrier was jarring; he ran his fingers through his wet hair once and watched the rainbow sides of droplets falling.”
― Sara Barkat, The Shivering Ground & Other Stories

“She bid him farewell,
And scrutinized his silhouette,
That slowly faded in the shadows.
She whispered,
"Au-revoir"
To the nocturnal mist.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“Unlike their owners, shadows are never hostile to each other, and when they get the chance, the two shadows immediately merge with the other!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The shadow that walks in front of its owner starts to think of himself as a great guide!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Tanizaki’s subject requires the shadowy style in which he treats it”
― Thomas J. Harper, In Praise of Shadows

“If there is only shadow on a theatre stage, that play will be boring; if there is only light on a theatre stage, that play will be boring! What makes the play interesting is the struggle of shadows and lights with each other!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As the sun goes down, the shadows grow, but the shadows think the sun is setting because they themselves are growing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Your shadow either moves when you move, or when the light moves. If neither is moving but your shadow is still moving then your mind must be moving!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shadows love sunsets the most, and of all sunsets, they love sunsets in the desert the most!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Funny thing about shadows. They made even the smallest things into monsters or fairies or whatever folks wanted.”
― Ashley Clark, The Dress Shop on King Street

“Truth be told, she still preferred to lve life in the shadows, but duty called.”
― Jen Calonita, Disney Frozen: Let It Go