Dark Quotes - Page 37

• I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Black, Matter, Mystery

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's Denver Beck, isn't it? Paul mentioned him. What's he like?" Ori asked. "Oh, where do I start? Beck's mouthy and he lives to tell me what to do." In short, he's so not you. "Why do you want to know?" A glimmer appeared in Ori's dark eyes. "Just scoping out the competition.

  Jana Oliver

  Eye, Competition, Denver

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.216, Pan Macmillan

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, School, Glasses

  4 Copy quote

• Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

  Dan Brown

  Age, Suggestions, Force

  4 Copy quote

• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Hunting, Eggs, Smell

  12 Copy quote

• I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

  Stephen King

  Found, Wander

  Stephen King (2017). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

  Isaac Asimov

  Marriage, Futility Of Life, Taught

  "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

  Nora Roberts

  Hero, Men, Hair

  4 Copy quote

• I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

  48 Copy quote

• Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

  Joseph Delaney

  Inspiration, Turns

  Joseph Delaney (2011). “The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane”, Harper Collins

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Grandma, Thinking

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Glasses, Light, Fog

  4 Copy quote

• You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Age, Want, Stills

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Deadeye Dick”, Delacorte Press

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Air, Hands, Voice

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Night

  4 Copy quote

• On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Father, Angel, Heaven

  4 Copy quote

• A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Men, Water

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.47, Prestwick House Inc

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

  Nancy Farmer

  Choices, Tree, Doe

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Together, Down And

  "The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Determination, Loneliness, Helping Others

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.211, Head of Zeus

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Richard thought a moment. "I don't know, but we have to get across the pass. We're too tired to have to spend tonight fighting shadows again. We must get to the Midlands before dark. And this time, I promise I won't let go of your hand." Kahlan smiled and squeezed his hand. I won't let go of yours either.

  Terry Goodkind

  Letting Go, Tired, Fighting

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.224, Head of Zeus

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Issues, Ideas

  "Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. August 08, 2007.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Smell, Light

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.14, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Night, Wind

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

  14 Copy quote

  Show source