The Dark Unwinding Quotes

She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark. ~ Sharon Cameron

Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen ~ Neal Shusterman

Are you calling me stupid?"says Emby.
"I think I just did."
Hayden laughs. "Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible? ~ Neal Shusterman

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding. ~ Julien Gracq

unwinding is, by law, painless. ~ Neal Shusterman

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there. ~ Robin Wasserman

Adults spend their lives unwinding their childhood. ~ Matthew Dicks

Dark, that's the word. Dark hair strategically styled in at least a dozen conflicting directions. Dark brows and lashes, dark stubble, and hazel eyes pinning me with a piercing dark look. ~ Jewel E. Ann

Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils. ~ Neal Shusterman

But life doesn't end," the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. "It just transforms. We like to call it 'living in a divided state.' ~ Neal Shusterman

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger. ~ Frederick Lenz

Oliver began unwinding his cravat with one bloody hand. "Do you often have people shooting at you?"
Sometimes. "No." "I don't like this at all. ~ Cat Sebastian

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ... ~ Vita Sackville-West

I'll leave it all behind until the dark takes me. ~ Jordan Hoechlin

Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whether you are in the dark in the dark or in the dark not in the dark, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the in the dark about being in the dark, only to look around and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark, but in the dark in the dark nontheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locked cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, and so you may fall into the hole that the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, and in the park. ~ Lemony Snicket

A little fight in you. I like that. ~ Heath Ledger

When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small. ~ Dean Koontz

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. ~ Wendell Berry

Silly. Dark isn't scary. Dark is safe."
"Why?"
"I live in the dark all the time. But when it's dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can't see someone, they can't see you, either."
She sniffles a few times. "So, it's like I'm hiding in the dark?"
"Yes. You're the secret when it's dark. Dark is safe. ~ Kiersten White

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else? ~ Ian MacKaye

And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep. ~ Justin Cronin

Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ~ Horace

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark. ~ Curtis Martin

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner. ~ Andrew Cormier

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ~ Sophocles

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age. ~ Mahmud Tarzi

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. ~ Theodore Roethke

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. ~ John Jewel

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. ~ Bob Ross

Death chose each of us - both Dark and Light - for a reason. There can't be Light without Dark or Dark without Light. ~ Donna Grant

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. ~ Cory Doctorow

You're all dark, dark, dark. And Jace and I are light. ~ Cassandra Clare

Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Don't let the dark clouds of greed confuse you ~ Kevin O'Leary

I've never felt remorse before. It's disgusting. ~ Willow Madison

I remember the first time we took off our clothes in front of each other. It was like unwinding bandages. I was as much of a man as Olivia could bear at that point. I was her starter kit. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well. ~ Annie Lennox

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features ~ Countee Cullen

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments. ~ Neal Shusterman

All comedy comes from a dark place. ~ Katt Williams

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark. ~ Philip Levine

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm. ~ Henry Selick

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff. ~ Adam Carolla

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. ~ Kami Garcia

His pleasure is my pleasure. ~ Pam Godwin, Dark Notes

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me. ~ Mark Lawrence

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. ~ Robert Graves

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. ~ Neil Gaiman

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. ~ Dave Eggers

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best. ~ Jamie Babbit

I know what to do
with the dark. ~ Emily Skaja

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it. ~ Dominic Riccitello

Come to the dark side. We have cookies. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Come to the Dark Side.
We have chocolate. ~ Cheyenne McCray

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God. ~ Mystikal

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~ Elie Wiesel

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. ~ Whoopi Goldberg

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. ~ Cressida Cowell

No day so clear but hath dark clouds. ~ George Herbert

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. ~ John Bunyan

I want you naked, sitting at my piano and rolling your hips like you're fucking the notes. ~ Pam Godwin, Dark Notes

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things. ~ Publilius Syrus

[...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism. ~ David Dark

They say when you look in dark places you find dark things.
And trust me; I have been in some very dark places. ~ Sean Catt

When we can lay hold of the Tao of old to direct the things of the present day, and are able to know it as it was of old in the beginning, this is called (unwinding) the clue of Tao. ~ Lao-Tzu

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that. ~ Chuck Pagano

Every Unwind believes in their heart of hearts that it won't happen to them - that their parents, no matter how strained things get, will be smart enough not to fall for the net ads, TV commercials, and billboards that say things like Unwinding: the sensible solution. ~ Neal Shusterman

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ... ~ Lemony Snicket

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power. ~ Boris Johnson

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning ~ George Carlin

Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate. ~ Phoebe Tonkin

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves. ~ Wolfgang Borchert

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill. ~ Boris Johnson

Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity. ~ Charlize Theron

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem. ~ Dennis L. McKiernan

There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia ~ Neal Shusterman

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. ~ Bill Bryson

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings. - Wendell Berry ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins. ~ Cornelia Funke

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part. ~ C. K. Williams

Maybe loving him out loud would make a difference. ~ Dannika Dark

My coping mechanism is denial. We'll be fine. ~ Dannika Dark

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts. ~ August Tholuck

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
~ Charles Simic

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. ~ Shirley Maclaine

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally. ~ Linda Gray

Family isn't blood - it's who has your back. ~ Dannika Dark

Religion is born out of questions, not answers. ~ David Dark

Sometimes ordinary people are destined for extraordinary lives. ~ Dannika Dark

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime. ~ Steven Furtick

Pick your teeth up and go home! ~ John Dark

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. ~ Adam Riess

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there. ~ Malik Yusef

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ~ Annie Dillard

He saw trust. Complete trust. It was a gift, a precious one, and it humbled him. I've got you, Emeline. I will always be with you.

Dragomire to Emeline, Dark Legacy, Dark #27 ~ Christine Feehan