Sight Quotes - Page 15

• Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

  Sherwood Smith

  Memories, Reality, Smell

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

  Sylvia Plath

  Distance, Men, Flawless

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Waiting, Lines, Ends

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.

  Shiro Amano

  Light, Darkness, Lost

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• Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Thinking, Soon Enough

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• He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretentions to beauty or even good looks, was something he had not expected. But falling in love, he had always understood, was unpredictable, and, as far as he was concerned, irrevocable.

  Betty Neels

  Girl, Falling In Love, Sleep

  "Love & Marriage".

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• Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I’d ever seen Hoyt alone.

  Charlaine Harris

  Light, Hands, Pockets

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “True Blood Omnibus III: All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, Dead and Gone”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Looks, Able

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.35, Penguin

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• Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed from his entombing bed Through the hand of the dead he is free Terrible beauty, monstrous sight Ruled again they shall be Women shall kneel to his dark might Kalona's song sounds sweet As we slaughter with cold heat

  P. C. Cast

  Song, Sweet, Queens

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “Revealed: Number 11 in series”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Heart, Ice

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• Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I’ve lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit’s vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Jesus, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.204, Discovery House

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• Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Dying, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.64, Macmillan

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• He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Love, Heart, Air

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• Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of Aunt Lauren's sight. "It's okay. We're good." Chloe and Derek

  Kelley Armstrong

  Aunt, Hands, Chloe

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dna, Years, Magic

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.198, St. Martin's Press

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• Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disappointment, Grief, Sea

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

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• There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

  Frank Peretti

  Dignity, Sanctity, Human Life

  "The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse".

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• It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

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• Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Worry, Bars, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.706, St. Martin's Press

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• An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Atheist, Vampire, Crosses

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.32, Penguin

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• A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

  Anne Rice

  Children, Vampire, Starving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.754, Ballantine Books

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• I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

  Jean Genet

  Falling In Love, Kissing, Blood

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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