Faded Quotes

284 Faded quotes by 225 unique authors

i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a… — Margaret Atwood
Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that… — Margery Williams
Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their… — Laura Hillenbrand
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated… — Virginia Woolf
I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the… — Sarah Dessen
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. — Elizabeth George Speare
The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The… — Robert Fulghum
Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out. — Stephen King
My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do… — Richelle Mead
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace… — Leo Tolstoy
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people… — Walker Percy
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness… — Leslie Marmon Silko
Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had… — Marissa Meyer
People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to… — Janette Rallison
What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away. — Carolyn Meyer
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about… — Fernando Pessoa
In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back… — Jeff Lindsay
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone.… — Joan Didion
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went… — Virginia Woolf
Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he… — Cinda Williams Chima
The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together… — Jeanette Winterson
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment… — Paolo Giordano

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