Lit Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

  Egon Schiele

  Beauty, Light, Body

  Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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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. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Lying, Angel

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

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• In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. ‘To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?

  Catherine Fisher

  Eye, Thinking, Flames

  Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Stupid, Heart, Night

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• Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Attitude, Confused, Eye

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

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• The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Nouns, Verbs

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• Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.

  Mark Strand

  Dream, Stars, Air

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Knopf

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• Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

  Laini Taylor

  Sight, Wings, Feelings

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• If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Fire, Should, Ifs

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.617, Simon and Schuster

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• Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Sorry, Jealous

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• So what’d you do to the lesser?” a male voice said. “I lit his cigarette with a sawed-off,” another one answered. “He didn’t come down for breakfast, you feel me?

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Males, Breakfast

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.314, Penguin

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Smile, Faces, Kind

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

  Tom Petty

  Dirty, Heart, Clouds

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• And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

  Joanne Harris

  War, Light, Groups

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• A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way.

  Kim Harrison

  Cost, Als, Sparks

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• That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

  Daniel Handler

  Dark, Night, Courses

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• Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Chinese, Mind

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.31, Penguin

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• A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Cities, Lines, Rhyme

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• We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

  Arthur Machen

  Men, Two, Heaven

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,” I said. “It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates.” His eyes lit up. “We’re on a date?” he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. “Don’t push it.

  John Green

  Party, Eye, Feelings

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by Jogn Green, January 10, 2012.

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• I smiled at the giant. “Actually, Cacus, I have another secret weapon.” The giant’s eyes lit up with greed. “Another weapon? I will steal it! I will copy it and sell the knockoffs for a profit! What is this secret weapon?” “Her name is Annabeth,” I said. “And she’s one of a kind.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Names, Greed

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

  Richard Brautigan

  Horse, Dwarves, Knights

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