Wisps Quotes

51 Wisps quotes by 46 unique authors

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam… — Gerald Durrell
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- — Jeanne DuPrau
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book… — Donald Miller
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut
Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only problem was, from… — Jay Asher
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're… — Gayle Forman
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
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. — George R. R. Martin
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she… — Nicholas Sparks
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.… — Ellen Hopkins
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will… — Neil Gaiman
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a… — Theodore Dreiser
17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over… — Patricia Cornwell
But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be.… — Alexandra Bracken
She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what… — Nicholas Sparks
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there… — Alice Hoffman
Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or… — Donna Tartt
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. — Maya Angelou

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