Shapes Quotes - Page 25

• A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

  Vera Nazarian

  Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Spirit

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• Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, May, Our Past

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• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Queens, Cheer

  Robert E. Howard (2008). “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard”, p.158, Del Rey

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• When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Book, Past

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, Lulu.com

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• Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Men, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.127, Broadview Press

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• You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Splendid, Form

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.833, Dell

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• I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

  Kij Johnson

  Dream, Lonely, Stars

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Apology, Expectations, Waiting

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• Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Sticks, Sideways

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stories, Use, World

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• Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest corner of her heart, wanted Will to say. Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even when she was furious. And here he was standing in front of her, telling her he loved the words of her heart, the shape of her soul. Telling her something she had never imagined anyone would ever tell her. Telling her something she would never be told again, not in this way. And not by him. And it did not matter. "It's too late", she said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Heart, Boys

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• Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Trying, Needs

  Song: I Don't Want To Change The World

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• And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Eye, Laughing

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• Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.

  Susane Colasanti

  Different, Packages

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.201, Penguin

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• She could've looked at the tiny miracles in front of her: my feet, my hands, my fingers, the shape of my shoulders beneath my jacket, my human body, but she only stared at my eyes. The wind whipped again, through the trees, but it had no force, no power over me. The cold bit at my fingers, but they stayed fingers. "Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something." "Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Hands, Wind

  "Shiver". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, August 1, 2009.

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• Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

  Patrick Ness

  Different, Clubs, Letters

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

  Michael Scott

  Imagination, Magic, Auras

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.143, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

  John Green

  Teenage, Alaska, Energy

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go." "My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Acting, Doe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, Nerves, Pieces

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• Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Night, Snow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Destiny, Our Lives

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.977, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

  Michael Card

  Life, Positive, Writing

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• I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

  Deepak Chopra

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Acceptance, Doe

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