Color Quotes - Page 21

• Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

  Aberjhani

  Heart, Long, Mind

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.90, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• So many humans. So many colors.

  Markus Zusak

  Humans

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.302, RH Childrens Books

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• Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.342, RH Childrens Books

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• Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

  Kristin Hannah

  Black And White, Self, Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2010). “Winter Garden”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Reality, Race

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• When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most. Sometimes I manage to float far above those three moments. I hang suspended, until a septic truth bleeds toward clarity. That's when I see them formulate: THE COLORS RED: [rectangle] WHITE: [circle] BLACK: [swastika] They fall on top of each other. The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

  Markus Zusak

  Fall, Circles, White

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• Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

  Suzanne Collins

  Land, Force Fields, Glowing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.363, Scholastic Inc.

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• GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?

  Robert Frost

  Running, Light, Mountain

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Yellow

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier." Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.

  Richelle Mead

  Car, Earth, Dozen

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

  Malcolm X

  Race, Blue, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

  Cecelia Ahern

  Hair, Play, Important

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Animal, Boys, Expression

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• We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

  Andre Breton

  Men, Sky, Passing

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• And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

  Ann Brashares

  Blue, Essentials, Pants

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• Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.

  Markus Zusak

  Stress, Dark, Sky

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Waiting, World

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

  Bob Dylan

  Shining, Mind, Shows

  Song: Lay, Lady, Lay, Album: Nashville Skyline, 1969

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• My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Sunset, Blow

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• You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I've seen millions of them. I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

  Markus Zusak

  World, Care, Remember

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.11, RH Childrens Books

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• Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

  Karen White

  Daughter, Book, Writing

  Karen White (2009). “The Lost Hours”, p.24, Penguin

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• Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Heart, Your Favorite, You Choose

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

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• Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Mother, Memories

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• I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Stupid, Light, Glowing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.77, Penguin

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