Bright Quotes
1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
— Alice Munro
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I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled…
— David Foster Wallace
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I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the…
— Lauren Oliver
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch. It was Dimitri.…
— Richelle Mead
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Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother,…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly.…
— Christopher Paolini
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My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I…
— Jay Asher
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Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and…
— Robert Graves
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It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it…
— Simon R. Green
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Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst…
— Rick Riordan
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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
— Kim Edwards
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We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume…
— Greg Behrendt
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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,…
— William Shakespeare
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Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.
— William Shakespeare
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I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world…
— S.A. Bodeen
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In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter…
— N.D. Wilson
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss…
— Katherine Mansfield
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America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding…
— Orson Scott Card
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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way…
— Mark Twain
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