Glasses Quotes - Page 28

• She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Fall, Essence, Alabama

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Husband

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.391, A&C Black

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• I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Reading, Cutting

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• What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling good. 
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling bad.
 I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
 could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.

  Andrea Gibson

  Mirrors, Feel Good, Feelings

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• When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

  Susan Cain

  Football, Beer, Games

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.139, Penguin UK

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• The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Islands, Sea

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Moments

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• For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Fall, Land

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• I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Drinking, Psychics, Voice

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• Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Dark, Reflection

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• I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smile, Snow, T Shirt

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.668, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Children, Trying, Negative

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• Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense.

  Rick Riordan

  Jealous, Voice, Broken

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• You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Ugly, Kent

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better.” Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks. “I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.” She did. “I choose you over everyone.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Snow, Tears

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.668, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Arrows

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• I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

  James Joyce

  Time, Flames, Space

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

  Thomas Heywood

  Time, Turns, Sandy

  c.1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness, sc.13.

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Grief, Men

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Church, Hours

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Spy, Red

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

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• Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
  'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

  Edith Wharton

  Time, People, Broken

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Inspirational, Flames, Needs

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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