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• Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wine, Eye, Yellow

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990 – July 1991.

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beach, Phases, Bunnies

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• For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Kissing, Knives, Muffins

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books

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• My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Mind, Pounds

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• I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.

  Emma Roberts

  Summer, Legs, Bikinis

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• Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Pagan, Feds

  'Hymn to Proserpine'.

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• When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.

  Umberto Eco

  Spring, Coffee, Humble

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Eye, Stubborn

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book Seven”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  Olivia Wilde

  Wine, Eye, Dark

  "Olivia Wilde: Jason Sudekis Loves My Hair When It's". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Thinking, Years

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• X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Lakes

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

  Virginia Woolf

  Girl, Fun, Creating

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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• Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

  Regina Doman

  Pale Yellow, Blue, Jeans

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• The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Smile, Dream, Baby

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Moving, Eye

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “The Hanged Man”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling inside me. Yet even as I sleep somewhere between Saturn and Uranus, wind-up birds everywhere are busy at work fulfilling their appointed rounds.

  Haruki Murakami

  Softball, Fun, Spring

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.

  Margaret Weis

  Dream, Eye, Wearing Black

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (1985). “Dragons of Winter Night”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Wall, Clothes

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• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Wall, Spinning Around

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.8, Vintage

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• Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, Giving, Interesting

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.161, Random House

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• I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

  Annie Dillard

  Blue, Mountain, World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.41, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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