Orange Quotes - Page 20

• What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Fur, Kind

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.82, Penguin

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• It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

  Rob Sheffield

  Color, Trying, Passionate

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.28, Penguin

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park This is peace and contentment. It's new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all my jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I'm glad I exist.

  Wendy Cope

  Jobs, Love You, Shopping

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child," came a strangely familiar voice. "Don't 'dear child' me!" she snapped. The twenty-two-year-old punk rocker ran black-polished fingernails through black-and-orange-dyed hair, which did nothing to soothe the pounding behind her black-shaded eyes. "Give me my croissant or I'll–" It was then that she suddenly realized she was threatening the venerable Alistair Oh. "Alistair, what are you doing here?

  Gordon Korman

  Children, Eye, Hair

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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• Otrera stayed dead the second time," Kinzie said, batting her eyes. "We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit." Percy couldn't tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Eye, Thinking

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• Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Hair, Bits

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

  Jim Butcher

  Oil And Water, Orange Juice, Together

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin Group

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• Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

  Katie MacAlister

  Running, Blood, What If

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• The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Giving, Quality

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• Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Air, Breathing

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Looks, Doe

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• I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  Pamela Anderson

  Soccer, Mom, Cutting

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Dark, Garden

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• I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.

  Charlaine Harris

  Adventure, Orange Juice, Iron

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.

  Hal Borland

  Wild Roses, Here And There, Stones

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• Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.

  Kathy Reichs

  Fighting, Color, Ties

  Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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