Shadows Quotes

“Let me guess, you could smell my perfume. Isn't that what always gives the heroine away in books?'

He scoffs. 'I command shadows, but sure, it was your perfume that gave you away.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Xaden lifts a hand a few inches above the table, and shadows pour from underneath our seats, filling the room and turning it dark as midnight in a blink. My heart jumps as my sight goes black.

'Relax. It's just me.' A ghost of a touch skims my cheek.

Just him is slightly... terrifying.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I wonder if my readers know the colour of that "darkness seen by candlelight." It was different in quality from darkness on the road at night. It was a repletion, a pregnancy of tiny particles like fine ashes, each particle luminous as a rainbow.”
― tanizaki junichiro, In Praise of Shadows

“The ferns are silvery in the moonlight, the woods full of shifting shadows.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Desperation is the road to depravity.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes

“He might wield shadows, Violet, but give him his way, and you'll become one.'

'That won't happen,' I promise her.

'It will if he has anything to say about it.' Her gaze flickers behind me. 'Killing someone isn't the only way to destroy them. Keeping you from reaching your potential seems like a great path to the retribution he swore against our mother.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. They could drift away and never have to worry about anything. I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five hundred years of my life. Run from and into the shadows.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“But there is another part of you. Your shadow self. And it has power.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“It was hard not to dwell on that shadow in my heart, the shadow that trailed my every step. I hadn't felt like painting since I'd arrived- and that place inside me where all those colours and shapes and lights had come from had become still and quiet and dull.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“...the dress clings to my chest and waist, skirt flaring over my hips. The tattered edges give it a haunting elegance, as though I am wrapped in the shadows of dusk. I look the picture of mysterious courtier, rather than someone who sleeps in dirt.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Be a believer in possibilities. Even in the dark, see the opportunities. Cast your gaze beyond the shadows.”
― Sri Amit Ray, Power of Exponential Mindset for Success and Leadership

“He didn't know what light actually was, he didn't understand his shadows... but Van was always there to comfort him, showing how he saw him, and he stayed by his side despite his flaws and uneasiness.”
― Glitter Reversi, Torches

“She won't mind," I say. She won't notice.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Dear You,

Always face the sunshine, and shadows will fade away.”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

“The Hiding - A Haiku

In shadows he dwells,
Thinking is tough, he judges,
Light reveals the truth.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“She felt the Muleskinner was less interested in enjoying her attention than figuring out what he could do for her. There were people who stole near to you, and you could sense their shadows touching you, darkening the air around you, and beginning to stretch out over your life. But it wasn't like that with the Muleskinner. Rather, it was as if Taryn's shadow had attached itself to him, and he wasn't going to feel right again until he had helped her change her life. Taryn sensed that she was dragging the Muleskinner's imagination around after her, and when she left, his thoughts would continue to follow her. He'd keep thinking, What can I do for Taryn?”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book

“You and your shadow can look so different! What's even weirder is that sometimes your shadow can look more like you than you do!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Within each man a shadow exists.

The shadow of his past.
The shadow of his future.

And the shadow of all the things he
Could have been.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE POEMS PARABLES R.M. ENGELHARDT

“But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roundsman to collect them next morning and take them off to be washed and spruced up and sent out on duty again… In the areas, the dustbins spilled forth unsightly contents, relentless reminders of man’s mortality: now and again the air still gave a tiny sigh, and a whiff of decay was borne away upon the breeze. The plane trees rustled, whispering a message from the dustbins: ‘All is rottenness, all is death…’, the high street lamps cast shadows in angled walls that seemed as black and bottomless as eternity. A couple reeling home late from a party were swallowed up by a dark doorway: already the glow and the rapture were fading—tomorrow there would be sick headaches and queasy tummies… Beauty vanishes—beauty passes…Only the cats were heedless and unafraid, darting across the patchwork shadows of the streets on plush-cushioned, soundless paws. What threat had death and decay and nothingness?—to a sleek, suave gentleman with nine lives before him and every one packed with adventure that had nothing to do with death—on the contrary!”
― Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel

“Are you deceased?"

"No," I groan.

"That is good.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“I could cut the tension with a dull knife," Pella says. "Just sleep together already and get it out of your system.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“When it comes to this, to us, it's not up for debate by committee. It's not for my friends or family to weigh in on. It's mine. He's mine.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“You know, for a pampered princess, you have a certain gift for violence.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“Breathing hard, I twist in his arms to stare at the woods that consumed the man who was the brightest part of my past and the man who is my everything. Even if he doesn't want to be.

Goddess save him.

Reven is my everything, and I never told him that.”
― Abigail Owen, The Stolen Throne

“People associated emotion with the heart, but other organs had to feel them too.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

“With no foliage to subdue it, light blooms and burns in the wood, sending shadows of trees creeping down the slopes, over me, towards the river. It is as though their spirits have slipped from the trunks to drink.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground

“The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts.”
― Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

“Every single part of you is worthy of love and acceptance, even the scars you kept hidden until now.”
― Stefanie Ruth, Your Sacred Journey: The Ultimate Guidebook to Align Your Mind, Body, & Spirit

“If you change direction when there are shadows, you will always find light”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being