Lit Quotes - Page 3

• There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

  Annie Dillard

  Artist, Light, Needs

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.

  Steven Brust

  Dark, Facts, Found

  Steven Brust (2008). “The Phoenix Guards”, p.28, Macmillan

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• For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

  Tennessee Williams

  Goodbye, Blow, Lightning

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.

  Maureen Johnson

  Faces, Roommate, Offers

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.52, Penguin

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• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Running, Wine, Fire

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• The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Dark, Narrative

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat, it gathers all the power of the wind without hampering its course. Like light-- In light, lit through by light, transformed into light. Like the lens which disappears in the light it focuses. Like wind. Like light. Just this--on these expanses, on these heights.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strong, Light, Wind

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• Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

  Mira Grant

  Cheerful, Want, Rooms

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• It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Cute, Girl, Fire

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• A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Hair, House

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

  Rachel Vincent

  Book, Eye, Path

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.14, MIRA

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• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Fire, Impact

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• Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Eye

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.15, 谷月社

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• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  David Lynch

  Fire, Happenings

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• It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Fire, Hands

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Ted Radio Hour with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Night, Silence, Sound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.290, Open Road Media

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• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles. Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see, and this holiday story features any number of miracles, depending on your point of view.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Holiday, Views

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• Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action is. Everything about this fascinates me. Windows, lampposts, building facades. Looking into other people's lives. The way it all comes together, this entity greater than the sum of its parts. I feel inspired. I'm excited about my future life.

  Susane Colasanti

  Night, People, Together

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.100, Penguin

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• I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

  John Green

  Morning, Stars, Real

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.78, A&C Black

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Rays, Frozen

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Apples, Cities, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Reflection, Water, Gold

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

  Russell Pearce

  Liberty, Vigilant, Candle

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