Lightning Quotes
495 quotes by 394 authors
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What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if…
— Julio Cortazar
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In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden…
— Rick Riordan
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What…
— Ray Bradbury
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
— Ray Bradbury
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Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do…
— Ben Jonson
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A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that…
— Kate Elliott
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You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that…
— Marie Lu
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I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up…
— Haruki Murakami
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Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and…
— Anais Nin
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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the…
— Italo Calvino
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The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap…
— John Green
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listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room?…
— Octavio Paz
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The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
— Aberjhani
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Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
— Sarah Mlynowski
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He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a…
— Gena Showalter
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Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her…
— Steig Larsson
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Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger…
— Kelley Armstrong
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It…
— Patrick Rothfuss
Who Wrote These Lightning Quotes
394 authors contributed a total of 495 Lightning Quotes, led by these top contributors: