Shapes Quotes - Page 30

• She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.

  Cassandra Clare

  Regret, Loneliness, Reading

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Blessed, Eye, Voice

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• She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Angel, White

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1311, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Mean, Animal

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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grief, Moving

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Pain, Fall, Love Is

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.

  Alyson Noel

  Believe, People, Parent

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• Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Thinking, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”, p.23, Random House

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• As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Wall, Good Day, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

  Ayn Rand

  Healing, Hands, Secret

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.828, Penguin

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• Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

  Rudolf Steiner

  Art, Eternal, Dies

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• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

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• God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.

  Steven Furtick

  Destiny, Order, Giving

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.21, Multnomah

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• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Matter

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Monsters

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• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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• [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

  Wallace Stegner

  Blood, Law, Together

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.96, Modern Library

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Pride, Past

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

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• So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

  Gena Showalter

  Mistake, Fate, Destiny

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Craving”, p.132, HQN Books

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• Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

  Agatha Christie

  Coming Out

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? Are you afraid of my possibly insane dark side coming out?" "No, I'm afraid of your normal Rose Hathaway side coming out, the one that isn't afraid to jump in without thinking when she believes something is right." I gave him a dry look. "Is there are a difference?" "Yes. The second one scares me.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Fighting, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.205, Penguin

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