Pale Quotes

514 Pale quotes by 371 unique authors

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming… — Oscar Wilde
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison,… — Charles Dickens
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. — Cormac McCarthy
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he… — John Green
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper… — Maggie Stiefvater
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI.… — John Keats
We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook… — Jim Butcher
Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on… — Dean Koontz
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,… — Christopher Isherwood
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… — Edgar Allan Poe
The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful… — Jodi Picoult
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually.… — J R Ward
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand… — Conrad Aiken
Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the… — Cormac McCarthy
I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the… — Lauren Oliver
We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear… — Elie Wiesel
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for… — Umberto Eco
When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in… — Angela Carter
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his… — Virginia Woolf
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an… — Chris Cleave
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something… — Michael Cunningham
It’s a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris) Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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371 authors contributed a total of 514 Pale Quotes, led by these top contributors: