Gray Quotes - Page 23

• Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Eye, Men

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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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

  Color, Sky, White

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

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• Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death Eater’s hood, and last heard that man’s voice jeering in a dark graveyard while Lord Voldemort tortured him. He could not believe that Lucius Malfoy dared look him in the face; he could not believe that he was here, in the Ministry of Magic, or that Cornelius Fudge was talking to him, when Harry had told Fudge mere weeks ago that Malfoy was a Death Eater.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Black, Victim, Century

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.69, Random House

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

  Lucy Christopher

  Tunnels, Light, Heaven

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• People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Dark, Past

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• I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

  Anne Sexton

  Wall, My Own

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray

  Cassandra Clare

  Loving Someone, Feelings, Tessa Gray

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• Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat.

  Kathy Reichs

  Ice, Blue, Kitchen

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• ...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

  Harry Turtledove

  Black And White, Thinking, Want

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• I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Silly, Princess

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• To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Self, Order, Voyages

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.218, A&C Black

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• Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Doe, Another Day

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, 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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• The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Taken, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

  Margaret Atwood

  Football, Games, Six Months

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Color, Months, England

  "Gray Days of November" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

  Harvey Mackay

  Falling In Love, Gray Matter, Phrases

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• It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

  Nicki Minaj

  Black And White, People, Sound

  "V Exclusive! Nicki Minaj Talks What ‘Pink Friday’ Proved, Being a Woman in Hip-Hop, Fashion". Interview With Mikey Fresh, www.vibe.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

  Grace Paley

  Optimistic, Views, World

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.174, Macmillan

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