Color Quotes - Page 34

• Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Black And White, Life Is, White

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• The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

  Lois Lowry

  Art, Pain, Book

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• If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hate, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

  Aaron Spelling

  Cute, Kissing, Turtles

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• 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Reality, Soul

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”, said Jared. “You’re thinking of black leather. Black leather’s for bad boys. It’s all in the color. You wouldn’t think I was a bad boy if I was wearing a pink leather jacket.” “That’s true,” Kami said. “What I would think of you, I do not know. So what does brown leather mean, then?” “I’m going for manly,” Jared said. “Maybe a little rugged.” “It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Thinking, Boys

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Thoughtful, Light

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• The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Prayer, Angel, Black And White

  Jonathan Carroll (2008). “The Ghost in Love: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.

  Veronica Roth

  Laughing, Might, Tobias

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• Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

  Jim Butcher

  Pale Skin, Skins, Littles

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• No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

  Chris Crutcher

  Views, Effort, Way

  Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Sadness

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—” He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Judgment, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Palaces, Excitement

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.426, Macmillan

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• What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Fall, Soul

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he’d just failed it with flying colors.

  Tina St. John

  Flying, Tests, Ifs

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• I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Sticking It, Buttons

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• I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

  Josef Albers

  Want, Function, Form

  "Albers Paints a Picture". Elaine de Kooning, ARTnews Magazine, Issue 49 (p. 57), November 1950; later quoted in William C. Seitz "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America" (p. 67), 1983.

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• I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

  Veronica Roth

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

  Jennifer Estep

  Art, Flower, People

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to his face. I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is-- all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been handsome. Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles like he is surprised you bothered to look at him from the first place.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Dark, Boys

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• The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Echoes, Faithful, Skins

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.277, Dell

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• Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sky, White, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

  Ernest Cline

  Two, Skin Color, Years

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

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