Warmth Quotes - Page 5

• He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

  Stefan Zweig

  Lying, Heart, Flames

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.7, Pushkin Press

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• He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you." That's why.

  Suzanne Collins

  Moving, Love You, Eye

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kindness, Compassion, Self

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• A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Memories, Reality

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

  John Donne

  Stars, Princess, Fall

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Lying, Dark, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Apr 01, 2017

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• And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Touching, Might

  H. Rider Haggard (2016). “She”, p.91, H. Rider Haggard

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• My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Arms, Needed

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.35, Random House

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• I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

  Bear Grylls

  Prayer, Hands, Eyebrows

  Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

  John Fante

  Men, Blood, Hot

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.150, Canongate Books

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• She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Serenity, Age

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.201, Google Publishing

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• She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.

  Janette Oke

  Spring, Winter, Movement

  Janette Oke (2016). “The Love Comes Softly Collection: Eight Novels in One”, p.417, Baker Books

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• The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

  Juliet Marillier

  Powerful, Dark, Embrace

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Song, Thinking, Hands

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Mother, Drawing, Arms

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• As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Grateful, Heart, Home

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.66, Thomas Nelson

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• Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sweet, Morning, Stars

  Cesare Pavese, “In The Morning You Always Come Back”

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• There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Pain, Taken, Broken

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Healing, Sleep, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.74, 谷月社

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• It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Perfection, Feelings

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.183, RH Childrens Books

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• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Knowing, Rose, Joy

  Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Illumination”, p.37, Random House

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• You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Childhood, Half

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• The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.

  Patrick Ness

  Fire, Light, Darkness

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