Shade Quotes - Page 26

• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

  Wally Lamb

  Knives, World, Undone

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Doubt, Wavering

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Sweat, Creating

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Tone, Variation, Want

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.43, Anchor

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• ..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Smile, Lying, Eye

  1895 'We Wear the Mask', stanza 1.

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• God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

  James F. Cooper

  Years, Tree, May

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• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Black And White, Thinking

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• I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Song, War

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1910). “CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS”

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• Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

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• When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

  Thomas Hardy

  Struggle, Light, Blue

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.76, Diversion Books

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• She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Dog, Song

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• Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Russia, Soup, Cabbage

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• I wear lashes, of course, a little contour, and a lip. And usually I wear shades, so that helps with not doing my makeup. I can put on a cute little face real quick.

  Amber Rose

  Cute, Real, Makeup

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

  Emily Giffin

  Happy Endings, Sometimes, Life Is

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

  Haruki Murakami

  Night, Blue, Sky

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 23, 2014

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Athleticism

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

  Mary E. Pearson

  Rain, Walden Pond, Grass

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.51, Macmillan

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• In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Flower, Japan, Blossoming

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• Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

  John Updike

  Night, Together, Pale

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.102, Random House

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• He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge. And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew- she knew far to much.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Irises, Looks

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Aug 27, 2015

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sex, Gay, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

  Noam Chomsky

  Distance, Wind, Patterns

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.203, AK Press

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• You've got to be taught to be afraid
  Of people whose eyes are oddly made
  And people whose skin is a different shade.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, People, Skins

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• Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

  Joe Berlinger

  Black And White, Sound, Television

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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