• Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

    Edna O'Brien: Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
    Edna O'Brien (2003). “In the Forest”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt