Stained Quotes

156 Stained quotes by 144 unique authors

The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath… — Anais Nin
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy.… — Khaled Hosseini
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. — Saul Williams
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles… — Matt Taibbi
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined… — Janet Fitch
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that… — Claudia Gray
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement — Agatha Christie
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… — Abraham Verghese
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a… — Maggie Stiefvater
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. — Alexandra Ivy
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and… — A. S. Byatt
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,… — Cornelia Funke
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass… — Kurt Vonnegut
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out… — Gretchen Rubin
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. — Jim Morrison
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen
I was stained by failure. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to… — Koushun Takami
Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor.… — Lilith Saintcrow
Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? — Rick Riordan
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the… — George Orwell
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being… — Maureen Johnson

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