Flickering Quotes
87 quotes by 78 authors
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Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely…
— Lynsay Sands
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We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might…
— Annette Curtis Klause
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Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by…
— Doris Lessing
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What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all…
— Alan Watts
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You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that…
— Tana French
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She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and…
— Cassandra Clare
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The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This…
— Joshua Harris
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I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the…
— Neil Gaiman
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He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,…
— A. S. Byatt
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Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.
— David Wong
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I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell…
— Tana French
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When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the…
— Alan Watts
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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again.…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
— Denis Diderot
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Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of…
— Russell Smith
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Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled…
— Alan Huffman
Who Wrote These Flickering Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 87 Flickering Quotes, led by these top contributors: