Pale Quotes
514 Pale quotes by 371 unique authors
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I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my…
— Megan McCafferty
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And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt…
— Cassandra Clare
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For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with…
— David Simon
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the…
— Tom Wolfe
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Go sit down and look pale.
— Stephenie Meyer
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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The…
— Eileen Wilks
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales…
— Dave Barry
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Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood…
— Clive Barker
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Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the…
— Steve Hockensmith
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society…
— William Trevor
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Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most…
— Richard P. Feynman
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts,…
— Charles Dickens
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I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good…
— Lauren Oliver
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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
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He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only…
— Karen Chance
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Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” he said. “When I think of you,…
— Cassandra Clare
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I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone…
— Helene Hanff
Who Wrote These Pale Quotes
371 authors contributed a total of 514 Pale Quotes, led by these top contributors: