Faded Quotes

284 Faded quotes by 225 unique authors

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the… — Louisa May Alcott
Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could… — Jenny Downham
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him… — Emily Dickinson
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer… — Miranda July
From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her… — Tori Amos
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to… — Robert Frost
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that… — Neil Gaiman
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written… — Jodi Picoult
You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men.… — Henry James
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over… — Arundhati Roy
He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do… — Karen Chance
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all… — Willa Cather
There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads… — Neil Gaiman
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward.… — Jodi Picoult
Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with… — Cecelia Ahern
I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my… — Audrey Niffenegger
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked… — Leo Tolstoy
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and… — Gregory Maguire
As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded… — Karen Marie Moning
You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure… — Teresa Medeiros

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