Low ceiling, stone walls, a dirt floor stamped with paw prints. I never go in without announcing myself. ‘Hyaa!’ I yell. ‘Hyaa. Hyaa!’ It’s the sound my father makes when entering his toolshed, the cry...

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue.”Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. “Of course you...

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times… It goes to pretty dark places.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would...

How do I know you’ll keep your word?” asked Coraline.”I swear it,” said the other mother. “I swear it on my own mother’s grave.””Does she have a grave?” asked Coraline.”Oh yes,” said the other mother....

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn’t only be dangerous.They would be irresistible.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

I’ll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren’t rare. But one strange year, halloween came early….don’t you ditch me jim nightshade…don’t talk death. Someone might hear…

His angelic wings blackened when the dark fury assailed his mind. Summoning new strength from the unholy power that ravaged his soul, grieved to drastic levels of desperation by the tainting of the holy light...

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage…

From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps...

I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying in the dark with someone and telling them you love them and hearing...

In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside...

Bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, bride of Beimerstetten, naked bride of Beimerstetten,” and he imagines a procession of proud military men blowing trumpets as they stomp through a bomb-devastated town to the tune of...

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

When you love people, you want what’s best for them, and sometimes what’s best for them isn’t you.

You said you were allowed to lose it,’ some part of her reminded herself. ‘Not yet, not yet.

Love is the gap between the blackness and the emptiness. Of course, there are also times when love isn’t so cheery and gets really dark and lonely.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there’d be no room for sad and dark things.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.

Musically, there’s a movement called the flatted fifth that’s really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up...

Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.

I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I’ve written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity’s vileness to redeem the fragileness

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

You are fifty different kinds of twisted.””Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

It goes so fast, he thought, they don’t tell you that, how fast it goes…

I spend my nights thinking the worstAnd telling myself that everything’s going to work outI keep kicking myself in the mouthOpening up every cut that should be a scar by now

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus…

Darkness is just light turned inside out.

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Now that’s a ghastly moon, not ghostly.

Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters.Wonder if he’s for sale.People are afraid to merge. To merge.

The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don’t do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it...

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying,...

Information and ignorance are like light and darkness… When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.