Color Quotes - Page 26

• Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

  Lois Lowry

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Differences

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Past, Skins, Stories

  Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.264, Algonquin Books

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• We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Eye, Empathy, Small Gestures

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Gone, Alive, Dies

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache forming like a bulge in his brain. 'Maybe we were lovers,' Teresa said. Thomas tripped and crashed to the ground. Smiling sheepishly at Minho, who’d turned to look without slowing, Thomas got back up and caught up to him. 'What?' he finally asked. He sensed a laugh from her, a watery image full of color.

  James Dashner

  Laughing, Effort, Brain

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.237, Scholastic UK

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• Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

  Robin McKinley

  Answers, My Own

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, Broken, Kind

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Reflection

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• I would have thought even a certified idiot like Gabriel here would have taken account of it and notified someone." "Notified who?" asked Jem, not unreasonably. He had moved closer to Tessa as the conversation had continued. As they stood side by side, the backs of their hands brushed. "The Clave. The postman. Us. Anyone," said Will, shooting an irritated look at Gabriel, who was starting to get some color back and looked furious. "I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Hands, Looks

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• And this must be Avery?" "Oh, God, no," Cam said. "This is Candy, Mom." His mother's eyes widened and a bit of color infused her cheeks. "Uh, I'm..." "I'm Avery," I said, shooting Cam a look. "You had it right." She spun around, smacking Cam across the arm. Hard, too. "Cameron! Oh my God. I thought..." She smacked him again and he laughed. "You're terrible.

  J. Lynn

  Mom, Mother, Eye

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• His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Eye, Honey

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• Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

  Charles Bukowski

  Football, Lonely, Drinking

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• Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

  Ralph Ellison

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  "Invisible Man".

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• I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.

  Darynda Jones

  White, Personality, Chalk

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Death, Doom, and Detention”, p.19, Macmillan

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• You’re so hilarious. You know, if this whole Daimon-slaying gig doesn’t work out for you, you should really consider being a comedian. The bright Barney hair color would just add to the overall entertainment factor.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hair, Work Out, Comedian

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.62, Macmillan

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• It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)

  Erin Gruwell

  Dream, Heart, Self Worth

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• It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful." She leaned forward and touched his face lightly, the smooth skin over his hard cheekbone, his hair like feathers against the back of her hand. "I saw rivers, boats like flowers, all the colors of the night sky.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Flower, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

  Cassandra Clare

  Laughter, Would Be, Imagine

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1183, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

  Joe Hill

  Wall, Needed, Felt

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.373, Hachette UK

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• I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Coats, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Skins, Gold

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Ali (2005). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, Large Print Press

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• When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Shade, Cruelty

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.12, A&C Black

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• and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

  Charles Bukowski

  Eye, Sea, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.

  Veronica Roth

  Blood, Strange

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Pride, Past

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