Color Quotes - Page 15

• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Holiday, Nymphs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Broken, Add, Nonsense

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

  Susanna Clarke

  Heartache, Precise

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• Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Laughter, Love Life

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Happiness, Issues, Self

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• History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

  Jasper Fforde

  Wall, Eight, Trying

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• The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Memories, Laughter

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Gone Away, Dresses, Phrases

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.76, Penguin

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• Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

  Neal Shusterman

  Heart, Alliances, Shapes

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• Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Night, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.74, Doubleday

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• I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Summer, Autumn, Names

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• The day was gray, the color of Europe.

  Markus Zusak

  Europe, Gray

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.35, RH Childrens Books

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• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

  Isak Dinesen

  Song, Children, Lying

  "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Light, Expectations

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• If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Imagination

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Clothes, Special, Surprise

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.348, Hachette UK

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• Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you - Nell Harris

  Katie MacAlister

  Giants, Different, Wonder

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• I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.

  Franny Billingsley

  Eye, Each Day, Ears

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.

  Suzanne Collins

  Silly, Wigs, Wonder

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.3, Scholastic Inc.

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• If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

  Sarah Weeks

  Names, Skins, Dinosaurs

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• What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

  Tony Hoagland

  Wall, Tunnels, Sky

  "A Color of the Sky". Poem by Tony Hoagland, 2003.

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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• Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

  Jack Gilbert

  Angel, Shoes, Rivers

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.218, Knopf

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• A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

  Neil Peart

  Light, Justice, Quality

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