Shimmering Quotes

61 Shimmering quotes by 57 unique authors

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular… — Gregory Maguire
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses,… — Terry Tempest Williams
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
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against… — Kelly Corrigan
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out… — Frederick Buechner
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his… — Karen Chance
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen
What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why,… — Kathryn Lasky
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. — Milan Kundera
Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside… — Tana French
I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of… — Kim Harrison
Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you.… — Marya Hornbacher
Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making… — Lauren Kate
You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth… — Karen Marie Moning
closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters,… — Sarah Dessen
...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a… — Laini Taylor
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Thankfully,two old friends stood next to the throne. Horus wore full battle armor and a khopesh sword at his side.is kohl-lined eyes-one gold, one silver-were… — Rick Riordan
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. — Dejan Stojanovic
Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the… — Susanna Kaysen

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