“Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”

“Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light.”

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”

“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”

“Concern with this world is darkness in the heart, but concern with the Hereafter is light in the heart.”

“For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky.”

“Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”

“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”

“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”