Electric Quotes
518 Electric quotes by 400 unique authors
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I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a…
— Gregory David Roberts
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The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead…
— Jennifer Egan
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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an…
— H.G. Wells
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And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as…
— Gayle Forman
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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit…
— David Nicholls
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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And…
— Haruki Murakami
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Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire…
— Ilsa J. Bick
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Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and…
— Anais Nin
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I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is…
— Sylvia Plath
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Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily.…
— Holly Black
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A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the…
— Richard Brautigan
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It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it,"…
— Ally Carter
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The collision was impending and electric, but the moment was soft and sweet: She positively glowed as she looked up at him. "What," she whispered,…
— J R Ward
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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
— Anne Sexton
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Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be…
— Rick Bragg
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It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive…
— Peter Straub
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Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
— Rick Riordan
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You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric…
— Stephen King
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates…
— Sylvia Plath
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"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their…
— Garth Nix
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Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I’ve missed you,” he whispers softly. The air between them is electric as he leans in, gently brushing his lips against her neck. In the…
— Erin Morgenstern
Who Wrote These Electric Quotes
400 authors contributed a total of 518 Electric Quotes, led by these top contributors: