“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. - Clive Barker

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. - Gary Zukav