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Hope drowned in shadows
emerges fiercely splendid––
boldly angelic.


Aberjhani

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and i loved her
i loved her fiercely
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The wheel of time moves on
New bonds, new ties ignite
Moments fleet, memor...
BALROOP SINGH How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Those with wild hearts love big
love fiercely
love with every fiber
of their feral be...
MELODY LEE When the wolf howls and the moon dims
hope fades with the waning light.
Evil lurks at eve...
GRACE WILLOWS I'm ending this.'

'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'

'You are,' he said fiercel...
RAINBOW ROWELL do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their lo...
AVA. I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over SANOBER KHAN Possible impossibility emerges
From an impossible possibility,
Or possibly, impossible p...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you." GRACE BURROWES Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell.
ALFRED TENNYSON Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
...
SRI CHINMOY Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride," EDGAR ALLAN POE I Love the Smell of Success in the Shadows of Failure.

~Ayyaz Ameer Meo
AYYAZ AMEER MAYO But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- ...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE You'll see me in the morning
if you do not flood the street.
You'll hear me in the evenin...
CALVIN W. ALLISON i am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God<...
SAUL WILLIAMS Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.

-Engraved on the monument Cl...
LORRAINE HEATH And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves
Interlace with low voices and footsteps and...
CONRAD AIKEN In all the flames of fire fume’s left the trace
Into the bluest sea the sky is drowned
T...
MUNIA KHAN And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a s...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid."
<...
IAIN PEARS Forever..." he murmured against her. " I'll hold you down..." ~ Trez

'The Shadows' Page ...
J.R. WARD Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

[Give me the splendid si...
WALT WHITMAN I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.<...
RUTA SEPETYS They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a whi...
ERNEST DOWSON Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but ...
THOMAS HARDY Cleopatra: Whoever is born on a day I forget to send a message to Antony will die a beggar. Bring in...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Hardest Part

Not the loving, but the part
just after—
the remembering NEENA H BRAR I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute...

Even a human woman could ha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away ...
THOMAS MERTON When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.
MARK STRAND A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It ...
ROBERT FANNEY Let us give thanks for our shadows
for they are there in the first place
because of the pr...
KAMAND KOJOURI And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, ARTHUR RIMBAUD The Solitary answered: Such a Form
Full well I recollect. We often crossed
Each other's path...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When all the birds drowned in the sliver bay
When the smoke signal went into outer space
N...
喬靖夫 We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sa...
C.S. LEWIS we met one strange summer

in a regular tangle of sticky webs

you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, J.R.R. TOLKIEN Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of sto...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in t...
ROBERT FANNEY Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own sh...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadows
where you accompany me in your dreams
and te...
PABLO NERUDA Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before<...
WILLIAM C. HANNAN À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

(In...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibi...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)
VICTOR HUGO In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I'm sure I look like a drowned cat."
"You look fine. The wet look works for you."
I scowle...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The shadows now so long do grow,
That brambles like tall cedars show,
Molehills seem mountai...
CHARLES COTTON They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have n...
ERNEST DOWSON The shadows. They never leave you. They keep dancing
around you a bit too loud in sunlight, and...
DIXY GANDHI For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moo...
W.B. YEATS I am wild, untameable, the storm and the eye within
An unpredictable gypsy, with passion beyond...
VIRGINIA ALISON Looks like nobody’s home,” Puck said, turning in a slow circle. “Hellooooooooo? Anybody here?�...
JULIE KAGAWA Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall ...
W.B. YEATS The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour aga...
JAMES SHIRLEY How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie ...
ISAAC WATTS At evening when the lamp is lit,
The tired Human People sit
And doze, or turn with solemn ...
OLIVER HERFORD Thick is the darkness--
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway--
Onward, still o...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The yellow moon dreamily
tipping buttons of light
down among the leaves. Marimba,
mar...
DENISE LEVERTOV I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied.
ROBERT WELLS In the hours waking,
when we're still all still,
and you can hear the floorboards creaking...
DAVE MATTHES When the world caves in
Still my hope will cling
To Your promise
Where my courage end...
HILLSONG There was a thing waiting in the darkness.
It was ancient, and cruel, and paced in the shadows....
SARAH J. MAAS Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and w...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Light

That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.
Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imag...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Look innocent. Have hope.”
“Okay.”
“And remember…”
“What?”
�...
KENNETH EADE your soul has been assailed by cowardice,
which often weighs so heavily on a man--
distrac...
DANTE ALIGHIERI If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I AM AN INDIAN,
LIKE OTHER BILLION,
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY,
HOPE TO FIND A GOOD WAY,
MERLIN8THOMAS Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and...
LANGDON SMITH Secrets are dark things. They don’t exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corner...
SUKANYA VENKATRAGHAVAN Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
JAMES SHIRLEY Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY Pushed into darkness,
the only way out was
to seek light with the
torch of hope and ...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR Are we like two stars in a constellation
Seeming so close
And making so much sense
Ye...
JUSTIN WETCH God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.
Surely, whi...
JOHN HEPWORTH From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Love, the exotic bird,
came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom."

"I'll get us the penthouse...
NALINI SINGH Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Red like blood
White like bone
Red like solitude
White like silence
Red like the...
TITE KUBO When hope turns dark,
I will bring the sun to light it,
I shall guide, protect thee, AYUSHMAN JAMWAL Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by win...
MELISSA MARR Child of shadows, once born of flesh
Un-winged, amidst fear and agony

‘Fraid of th...
ZUBAIR AHSAN WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
WIDAD AKREYI No need for false hope...

...

So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just...
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