Glasses Quotes - Page 22

• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Want Something

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?

  Gerald Durrell

  Wine, Singing, Sitting

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• Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

  Cassandra Clare

  Water, Frozen, Lips

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Moon, Broken

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• This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• "Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman and bring me something brown." "Brown?" Isabelle made a face. "Brown is a manly colour," said Jace and yanked on a stray lock of Isabelle's hair with his free hand. "In fact, look - Alec is wearing it." Alec looked mournfully down at his sweater. "It was black," he said. "But then it faded." "You could dress it up with a sequined headband," Magnus suggested.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Hair, Hands

  "City of Glass". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2009.

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• The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.” “But I’ve never kissed you,” he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glass. “Not since third grade, anyway.” I smile, but I’m not sure if he can see it. “Better get started, then,” I say, “because I don’t have much time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rain, Fall, Kissing

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• We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Hurt, Children

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.
  Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.
  Pippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?
  Gandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
  Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.
  Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Rain, Journey

  "Fictional characters: Pippin, Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Writing, Boat

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Talking, Splits, Absurd

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• I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

  Bill Cosby

  Drinking, Grandmother, Pouring

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• "I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!"

  Kim Harrison

  Distance, Sneak In, Cards

  "Dead Witch Walking". Book by Kim Harrison, 2009.

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• I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Thinking, Want

  Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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• I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Happiness, Wine, Simple

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Tongue

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2943, Bantam

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• I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.

  Tana French

  Wall, Skills, People

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• Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, Black, Tables

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• ...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Past, Half

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

  Joey Comeau

  Crazy, Half, Matter

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• Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Bears, Quiet

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grief, Moving

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Water, Enough

  Victor Hugo, Henry Llewellen Williams (jr), Frank Thomas Marzials (1907*). “Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned”

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