Faintly Quotes
82 quotes by 72 authors
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon…
— James Joyce
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The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
— Robin McKinley
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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door;…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my…
— Ann Brashares
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Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the…
— Cassandra Clare
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Don't leave me, Rainbow Girl." Rainbow Girl. Was that who I was? It seemed so long ago. I smiled faintly. "Remember the skirt I wore…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!
— Paulo Coelho
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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
— Charlotte Bronte
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
— Jack London
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But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right –…
— C.S. Lewis
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to…
— Thornton Wilder
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I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander…
— John Dryden
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts,"…
— Sue Grafton
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Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
— Raymond Chandler
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Karrin smiled faintly and shook her head. "He always said you knew ghosts. You're sure it was really him?" Mort eyed her. "Me and everyone…
— Jim Butcher
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Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when…
— Rachel Caine
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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
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