Pale Quotes
514 quotes by 371 authors
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I…
— Steve Martin
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If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the…
— James M. Barrie
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Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
— Anne Rice
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Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
— John Steinbeck
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galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello.…
— Jack Kerouac
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With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of…
— Dean Koontz
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
— Diane Setterfield
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He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride…
— Louisa May Alcott
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He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in…
— Neil Gaiman
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To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control…
— Philip Yancey
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Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
— Rachel Caine
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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can…
— Kevin Brooks
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Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a…
— Peter Brook
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Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.
— Regina Doman
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
— Annie Dillard
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You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Pale Quotes
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