“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”

“Shadows…bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.”

“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”

“The moods of the dark night skies are variously represented like soft black velvet, like the shining black of a scarab beetle, like the patina-ed surface of Indian-inked paper, soft blotting-paper soaked in dark blue ink for forty days, like a black cat's fur shining in moonlight…”

“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“A hug.. a kiss... or simply a caress must start from the heart, otherwise they don't have no value.”

“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.”

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”

“Beautiful as sweet!
And young as beautiful! and soft as young!
And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”