“I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive” RealDoneFeelingsBigsDarkAliveStyleHairRedDressesDancingQueensTonightHeelsPaleMoonlightHigh HeelsBeauty QueenHair Up Author:Lana Del Rey
“In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.” EvilDarkSilenceMorningGunRedDressesLaysMisogynyEvil Women Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.” StillsMemoriesDarkInfiniteDressesStudiosOccasionsRememberedRemembranceFifthAvenuesFestive Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.” FeelsHandsRememberStuffSidesDarkStageListeningColdSummerGoldDressesTheatreTallWakingScentLapFoldsFreezeDaydreamingStockingsRemembers EverythingDrapes Book:The Road Source: The Road
“At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.” FirstsTwoLightTogetherGirlBlackDarkSpaceWhitePerfectCitiesWindHairShadowDressesDawnButterflyMidnightVioletPurpleBlondeMothsPoniesRantRaveDark Hair Author:Francesca Lia Block
“Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.” KnowsFeelsLooksI CanRunningYoungDarkKnow HowWindArmsInfiniteDressesLegsVisibleBagsEnginesPlasticHugPaleSkinnyWizardsHustleParkingRobesRadarGoofyCalvesParking LotPlastic Bags Author:John Green
“THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.” LyingGirlDarkWhitePartySecretBoysDangerousDressesIntentionDawnIrresistibleManhattanPretty GirlMischievousScandalousWhite LieDark Secrets Book:The Luxe Source: The Luxe
“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 my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.” PeopleKnowsStillsDarkLaughingPersonalityDressesCostumesClownHappy People Author:Tim Burton
“Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name Six-Fingered Nigel." Jem:"Easy mistake to make." (later) Will: "I want to be back before dark. I have an assignation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone" Tessa: “Goodness, If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.” IfsWantLittlesCertainTurnsGirlNamesEasyDarkMistakeViolenceSeeingGoodnessSixDressesIntentionEveningAttractiveJemMidgetSoho Author:Cassandra Clare
“It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's to the wall. His hands slid down along her body and reached the end of her dress, drawing it up along her legs. "What are you doing?" She whispered. "Jace?" He looked at her. The peculiar light in the club turned his eyes an array of fractured colors. His smile was wicked. "You can tell me to stop whenever you want," he said. "But you won't.” WantSaidEndsBodyHandsLightEyeDarkColorWallShadowGoldDressesClubsLegsDrawingHis EyesWickedPeculiarJaceOutlinesHis Smile Book:City of Lost Souls Source: City of Lost Souls
“In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.” StoriesAgeSidesDarkWalksSweetCitizensDressesWestMusicalApplesGoodbyeOrangeRecklessByeDark SideOhioBright SideBye ByeTurquoiseWest SideWest Side StoryAge LifePeriwinkleBye Bye BirdieChartreuse Author:John Lahr
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.” IfsGivingKindI CanEnoughScienceDarkPleaseGive MeDressesPracticalsBe KindLaboratoryMarie Author:Marie Curie