Pale Quotes

514 Pale quotes by 371 unique authors

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 – 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
and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as… — Cormac McCarthy
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash… — Zadie Smith
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived,… — Janet Fitch
Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was… — Patricia Highsmith
So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I was wondering what you can… — Michael Buckley
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled… — Ken Kesey
They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up… — Cormac McCarthy
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! — Pablo Neruda
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal.… — Louise Rennison
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane — Rachel Caine
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly… — Aravind Adiga

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