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"She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say."
"The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster."
"Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow."
"The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing."
"I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes."
"Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree."
"A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell"
"Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow."
"The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past."
"Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind."
"Fantastic shadows of birds"
"Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207"
"The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering."
"The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]"
"Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face."
"A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original."
"There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?"
"The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other."
"None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it."
"You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all."
