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"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."

"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."

"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."
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"Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness."

"He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel."

"A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, she said. 'It's often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters."
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