Color Quotes - Page 32

• Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Opportunity, Racism, Blind

  Patricia Hill Collins (2004). “Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism”, p.178, Routledge

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• Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment from her tattoo, and from both of their memories. The outlines, like the circumstances, were still there, black and well delineated, but the colors had merged together until they faded into a dull, uniform tonality, a neutral absence of meaning.

  Paolo Giordano

  Tattoo, Memories, Black

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• Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Wings, White

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• The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.

  Katherine Applegate

  Shapes, Hunger

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• Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

  Judith McNaught

  Angel, Blue, Hands

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• Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Morning, Flower

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• When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Pain, Laughing

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• What colors are the eyes of Anubis?" "Brown...Duh.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Anubis, Duh

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• It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Struggle, Mean

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• Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Hunting, White

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion was muting the edges of everything in the room, blurring the flocked wallpaper into a single mass of dark color. “No. Not your hands. You need your hands for the violin. What do I need mine for?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Fire, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Sea, Cheerful

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

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• Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

  Piet Mondrian

  Size, Planes, Form

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• We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

  Pascal Mercier

  Soul, Mind, Shapes

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.334, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

  James Frey

  Memories, Giving, Darkness

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.179, Rutgers University Press

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• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

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• I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Want

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• Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.

  Ally Carter

  Silly, Kissing, Two

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Thinking, Animal

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

  Pablo Picasso

  Illusion, Quantity, Right Place

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• Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

  John Lennon

  Reporters

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• 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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• We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Numbers, Painting

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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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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