Faint Quotes
397 quotes by 318 authors
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Love me?†Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.†He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the…
— Ilona Andrews
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I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, "Percy?" "Yeah?" "When you, uh, had that vision about your friends..." "You were one of…
— Rick Riordan
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Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving…
— Jennifer Egan
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So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
— Anna Godbersen
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow.…
— L.A. Weatherly
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At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his…
— John Connolly
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Evie †came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.
— Lisa Kleypas
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I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me,…
— Janet Evanovich
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last,…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,†she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll protect you.†“If the bad man comes,†Fletcher responded, “I’ll bravely…
— Derek Landy
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He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
— Edith Wharton
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In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me,…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why…
— Veronica Roth
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is…
— Oswald Chambers
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With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her…
— Gail Carriger
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Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be…
— Georgette Heyer
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It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Faint Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 397 Faint Quotes, led by these top contributors: