Stains Quotes
224 Stains quotes by 190 unique authors
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What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it,…
— Daniel Handler
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman…
— Tim Burton
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I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night…
— Isabel Allende
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Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
— R. Scott Bakker
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I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be…
— Philip Roth
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Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
— Terry Goodkind
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Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her,…
— Daphne du Maurier
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There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or…
— Peter Ackroyd
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They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.
— Jodi Picoult
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all…
— Lawrence Durrell
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal.…
— Laini Taylor
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His eyes were cold and brown — like coffee stains…
— Markus Zusak
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. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.
— Madeline Miller
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He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with…
— Thomas Hardy
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A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses…
— Jodi Picoult
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He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that…
— Miranda July
Who Wrote These Stains Quotes
190 authors contributed a total of 224 Stains Quotes, led by these top contributors: