Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
-
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
-
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands,…
— Clive Barker
-
Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.
— Chetan Bhagat
-
Her, cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their humongous beaks and…
— P. C. Cast
-
Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.…
— Catherine Fisher
-
All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs…
— Catherine Fisher
-
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must tell you now,…
— Michael Shaara
-
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared;…
— Barbara Mertz
-
Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in…
— Suzanne Collins
-
The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
-
The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.
— Tabitha Suzuma
-
I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling into what was…
— Jeaniene Frost
-
Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".…
— Charles Bukowski
-
She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin'…
— Terry Pratchett
-
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
— Madeleine L'Engle
-
Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?” Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying…
— James Patterson
-
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
-
Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there with…
— Kiersten White
-
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children.…
— George R. R. Martin
-
I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns…
— Mathias Malzieu
-
The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had…
— Cassandra Clare
-
Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he…
— Janet Evanovich
-
I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
— Ann Aguirre
-
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Wall Quotes
1,990 authors contributed a total of 3,017 Wall Quotes, led by these top contributors: