Edges Quotes - Page 23

• Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Inspire, Burning

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• Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.

  Nora Roberts

  Hurt, Kings, Heart

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.296, Penguin

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• I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Clothes, Romance, Littles

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• I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sex, Taken, Thinking

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• Learn to live on the edge.

  Richard Branson

  Survival

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• What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, People, Ironic

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Autumn, Thinking, Smell

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Dream, Fire, Hands

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• He came over in long pur­pose­ful strides, sat at the edge of her bed, and in a ten­der, pos­ses­sive ges­ture wiped the lip­stick off her lips. “What is that?” he asked. “All the other girls wear it,” Ta­tiana said, quickly wip­ing her mouth, breath­less at the sight of him. “In­clud­ing Dasha.” “Well, I don’t want you to have any­thing on your lovely face,” he said, stroking her cheeks. “God knows, you don’t need it.

  Paullina Simons

  Girl, Sight, Long

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• As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mirrors, Air, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.171, Penguin

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• Callan took a deep breath. “I never expected you.” He shook his head with an edge of amusement. “You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler.” “Naw, just a determined woman.” She grinned against his shoulder. “I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.

  Lora Leigh

  Amusement, Determined, Good Things

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• You want to fall, that's all. You think it can't go on like that. It's as if your life is a perch on the edge of a cliff and going forward seems impossible, not for a lack of will, but a lack of space. The possibility of another day stands in defiance of the laws of physics. And you can't go back. So you want to fall, let go, give up, but you can't. And every breath you take reminds you of that fact. So it goes.

  Kevin Powers

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Fall

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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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• Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peking through a thin layer of clouds. The muscles in his arms are relaxed; his hand rests on the back of his neck. He looks almost comfortable, holding that gun to his shoulder. I close my eyes briefly. Why does he distract me so easily? I need to focus.

  Veronica Roth

  Horse, Stars, Eye

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• It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

  Libba Bray

  Hands, Forever, Magic

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

  Brad Thor

  Razors, Madness, Incredibles

  Brad Thor (2013). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #4: The Athena Project, Full Black, and Black List”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.

  Karen Chance

  Nuts, Issues, People

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• And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Lying, Destiny

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Mia,” Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. “You’re starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

  Gayle Forman

  Best Friend, Girl, Gun

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.58, Penguin

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• If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

  Patrick Ness

  Ocean, Want, Plans

  "The Ask and the Answer". Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2009.

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

  Mervyn Peake

  Air, Silence, Scythes

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.110, The Overlook Press

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• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wall, Numbers, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, People, Life And Death

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• I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Reality, World, Boxes

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