Softly Quotes
506 Softly quotes by 334 unique authors
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Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
— Soren Kierkegaard
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More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle
— C.S. Lewis
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Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.
— Janette Oke
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
— Markus Zusak
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For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars,…
— Tana French
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
— James Joyce
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
— Christina Rossetti
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken…
— William Carlos Williams
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So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.' You're kidding…
— Wendy Mass
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I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I…
— Diana Gabaldon
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.
— Terry Goodkind
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If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly…
— Audre Lorde
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to…
— Robert Frost
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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a…
— Joanne Harris
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Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to…
— Diane Duane
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I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and…
— Libba Bray
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I love you,” she said softly. Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. “I know.” Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she…
— Julie James
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But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable…
— Kim Harrison
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
Who Wrote These Softly Quotes
334 authors contributed a total of 506 Softly Quotes, led by these top contributors: