Lightness And Darkness Quotes Novels & Stories

Prologue When I was a child, I enjoyed listening to my mother's stories. Portraying the never-ending struggle between darkness and light. I would always look forward to her stories, which would be very entertaining. She always told me darkness represents malevolence, while light represents positivity and virtue. Her belief was that the power of light was the sole means by which darkness could be defeated. The resounding message she would consistently convey in her stories is that light will perpetually prevail over the darkness.

Bruce asked. "Hmm... yeah! lights are beautiful. But, I think it's not the lights that make this view so pretty but it is the darkness that is making those beams of lights look so amazing to look at. During the day, when the city is getting blinding light from the sun, it doesn't appear as dazzling as such meager amounts of lights amidst the spread of darkness make it. Isn't it strange?" Mr. Bruce pondered deeply on this. A smirk developed on his lips and he nodded his head slightly looking at her. "You mean to say that it's the scarcity of light in the spread of darkness that makes the night so pretty."

She shared the fact that the only reason she knew the obscure quote was through Bo, who at times would find other people words easier than his own. “The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world.” It was a repetitive quote, Oscar took a deep breath. “The universe may forget us, but it can’t forget us until we’re gone and we’re still here, our futures still unwritten.” Oscar could not remember the rest of the words, but he could see their effect on Bo. The taller man calms, his breathing moving at a steady pace through slightly parted lips.

Their callousness is what devastates him. "Mr. Starver," Webber appealed, taking the opportunity to speak as Benjamin continued to watch the representative from Delphi with interest, "it may be of note that no matter how dark the night, the light of a lamp is not diminished. Howbeit, if the man who holds the lamp, in negotiating with the darkness, should choose to dim the light of his lamp, he has done the one thing which the darkness could never do. To compromise with evil is to empower the darkness which flees from this light which we hold. When trouble comes, it must shine ever brighter. Therefore, let us shed our light abroad that by it men may see."

Dain hummed, but there was something flimsy about his care-free tone. “Why is that?” His eyes slid from the sky to where I stood, seeing me and not the blood that caked itself onto my skin, hiding my freckles and knotting my hair. “It reminds me that light and dark, much like good and evil, can’t exist without each other.” There was both an edge and a softness to his voice that I couldn’t quite understand. When my blank expression remained he let out a near-silent chuckle and said, “It reminds me of us, darling.”

“The light calls the dark, and the dark calls the light. You just have to know how to speak their languages.” Excitement swells in my chest. “What else? What else can you teach me?”

I sigh. He gives me a wide smile, one that makes my heart beat faster. "Whoever said darkness is evil did not have the depth of mind to cross the line and go beyond his own limitations. Darkness is much more than a behavioral tendency, it is a world trapped inside a universe itself; where humanity and any other race chooses to hide its most decadent thoughts, needs, and desires... Darkness is only a different way of experiencing things, it is a new veil that can be used to wake up other senses... It is in you, in me, in all of us..."

Is he going to make me face my fears like this? “Tay…” how do I explain it to him? “You can’t live like this Olivia; Face your demons at one point, it’s better to start now than later. Darkness doesn’t always represent darkness, and the same goes with light. The light you always sleep in may be your darkness and the darkness you are so afraid of may be your light. Some people wear white to represent their sorrows and their darkest moments and some wear black. What I’m trying to say here is that darkness is not what it always seems. There’s no need for you to be terrified of it. Now go to sleep, nothing is going to happen to you, okay?” I don’t know if I should believe him or not, but I nod a

For us not to be disappointed, let us stop imagining things that will never happen. I subtly let out a small and light sigh before I looked up the stars. They were twinkling, and they look so happy the way they shines. Everyone of them were apart, that they have quite far distance. And that just means that we can shine alone. That we all do not have a companion to see the light and be the light. It will be our choice if we chooses to be the source of light to whom who only see darkness.

This time when he speaks, his voice holds far more weight. ‘Even when the darkness tries to destroy you… remember that you stand for the light… no matter what form that darkness takes, withstand it.’ For the first time in my life, I’m rendered speechless. His words echo within my mind… He’s giving me a warning, but a warning of what?