Pale Quotes

514 Pale quotes by 371 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed. — Rachel Caine
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
I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can… — Kevin Brooks
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
Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments. — Regina Doman
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains — Annie Dillard
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
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 baby’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

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