Quotes About Dappled Light

#1. Where he saw a page of words, his friend saw the field of hesitations, black holes, and possibilities between the words. Where his friend saw dappled light, the felicity of flight, the sadness of gravity, he saw the solid form of a common sparrow.

Nicole Krauss

#2. Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. In the river meadows, alders, brambles and wild vines formed a magical jungle, dappled with shimmering, greenish light and spangled with twirling forest particles. Marshy pools lay sparkling among the elderberries and leaning beeches.

Nina George

#4. Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to rot on his stool. The single round light is dappled with the bodies of dead insects, and the walls are decorated with spatters and dribbles of grease.

David Mitchell

#5. Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

Wang Wei

#6. The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

#7. Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!

Rudolfo Anaya

#8. Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

David Harsanyi

#9. Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Emilio Ambasz

#10. We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam?

Sheena Iyengar

#11. Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

#12. To me, marriage was an ending, not a beginning. A stone on my chest. A giving-up, a decision to walk away from an interesting life for one just like everyone else's. Much more "ever after" than "happily.

Kristin Newman

#13. We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance.

Anne Lamott

#14. Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

Dean Koontz