Invisible Quotes - Page 19

• The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Giving, House

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• It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

  Margaret Atwood

  Made, Feels, Wanted

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.72, Anchor

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• One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

  Michael Robotham

  Balance, Together, Strange

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• When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

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• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Judging, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.27, Diversion Books

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Love, Thinking, Two

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then what happens? Diana demanded “Then were hit with massive doeses of radiation. It’s invisible, but its like someone is shooting tiny bullets at you. They blow millions of tiny holes through your body. You get sick. Your hair falls out. You vomit. You die

  Michael Grant

  Fall, Blow, Hair

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• A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brain, Ears, Fuzzy

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• Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. "Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a tropphy.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Hands, Giving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.232, Macmillan

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• I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?

  Gail Carson Levine

  Shoes, Doe, Wonder

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Ever”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Greatness, Wind

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• In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Grateful, Eye

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• If you don’t send Edward out,” Emmett—still invisible in the night—hissed menacingly, “we’re coming in after him!” “Go,” I laughed. “Before they break my house.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, House, Break

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• It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Impact, Comfort, Watches

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary. On the days when you feel low and invisible, why not try this on for size: imagine you are wearing a fantastic tailored tuxedo or a stunning formal gown. And then proceed with your day.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Black, Trying

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• How does this whole guardian angel business work? Am I the only person who can see you? I mean, are you invisible to everyone else?" Patch stared at me like he hoped I wasn't serious.    "You're not invisible?" I squeaked. "You have to get out of here!" I made a movement to push Patch off the bed but was cut short by a searing jab in my ribs. "She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!"    Patch grinned. "I can fly."    Oh. Right. Well, okay.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mean, Angel, Cutting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Advantage

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Distance, Sound, Able

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• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Strong, Children, School

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• The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Taken, Eye, Battle

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1387, Dell

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• Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Animal

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

  Kristin Hannah

  Past, Balance, Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I wish I was invisible to him, to everyone.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Wish

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