Pale Quotes

514 quotes by 371 authors

Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard… — Terry Pratchett
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the… — Margaret Weis
A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world.… — Haruki Murakami
I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,… — Francesca Lia Block
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,… — George Eliot
The smile that flickers on a babyâ€™s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a… — Rabindranath Tagore
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his… — W. Somerset Maugham
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like… — Barbara Kingsolver
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a… — Aldous Huxley
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out â€“ my… — Keith Donohue
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a… — Zadie Smith
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever… — Neil Gaiman
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of… — Gene Wolfe
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their… — William Shakespeare
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save… — Cormac McCarthy

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