Walls Quotes

1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors

Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it… — Rob Thurman
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood… — Robert Nathan
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light… — George R. R. Martin
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't… — Jonathan Maberry
Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight."… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls… — Gabrielle Zevin
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a… — Laini Taylor
Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no… — Tammara Webber
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have… — Sylvia Plath
But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then… — Deb Caletti
You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am… — Lauren Oliver
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off… — Jandy Nelson
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them.… — Isaac Marion
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as… — Cassandra Clare
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in… — Paulo Coelho
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to… — Paulo Coelho
The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty… — Claudia Gray
He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He… — Lee Child
My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight. — Hugh Howey
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness… — Leslie Marmon Silko
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning

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