Pale Quotes

514 Pale quotes by 371 unique authors

On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the… — Philip Pullman
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love… — Sigrid Undset
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them. — Janet Fitch
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come… — Oscar Wilde
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth… — John Green
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me — Langston Hughes
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed… — Ann Aguirre
Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit… — Adam Rex
They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. — Suzanne Collins
Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it… — Ann Aguirre
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. — John Green
was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that. — Laurell K. Hamilton
The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,… — William Shakespeare
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill. — J.R.R. Tolkien
A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out. — Jean-Paul Sartre
(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a… — Gary D. Schmidt
Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices. — Jaclyn Moriarty
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of… — William Faulkner
The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of… — Francesca Lia Block
She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward,… — James Frey
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they… — Thornton Wilder
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
Today I might lose both of them. I try to imagine a world where both Gale's and Peeta's voices have ceased. Hands stilled. Eyes unblinking.… — Suzanne Collins

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