Best Velvet Words
162 Velvet quotes by 143 unique authors
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But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to…
— Brian Jacques
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On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes…
— Ilona Andrews
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He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the…
— Margaret Mitchell
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If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.
— Sarah MacLean
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18…
— Stevie Nicks
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Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be…
— Jennifer Crusie
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I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood,…
— Anne Rice
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Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...
— Celia Rees
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He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. “You want to tell me what this is?” he demanded. “It’s a…
— Cassandra Clare
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A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.
— Nalini Singh
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He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
— Teresa Medeiros
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I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and…
— Ally Carter
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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii…
— Jim Butcher
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Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your…
— Jonathan Franzen
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There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
— Eloisa James
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet;…
— Anne Rice
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The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind…
— Ray Bradbury
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