Wind Quotes - Page 14

• I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

  Anais Nin

  Leafs, Leaves In The Wind

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• Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

  Nora Roberts

  Fate, Blow, Ends

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• But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Mean, Giving

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• Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

  Robert Nathan

  Blow, Sea, Flow

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• Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

  George R. R. Martin

  Promise, Blunt, Excuse

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.23, Bantam

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• At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Rain, Eye, Moon

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• Sitting over words
  Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
  Not far
  Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
  The echo of everything that has ever
  Been spoken
  Still spinning its one syllable
  Between the earth and silence.

  W. S. Merwin

  Dark, Night, Echoes

  "Utterance". Poem by W. S. Merwin, gladdestthing.com.

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• I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Darkness, Woods, Staring

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Dec 31, 2013

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• 17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Butterfly, Dust, Years

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• This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Horse, Sleep

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Clouds, Flames

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull.

  Richard Siken

  Animal, Glasses, Bridges

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• This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.

  John Green

  Girl, Kids, Home

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• For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Memories, Departure, Sailor

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• I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Horse, Memories, Father

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Blow, Stills, Happens

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• If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Care, Want, Perks Of A Wallflower

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• A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

  Karen White

  Kissing, Blow, Men

  Karen White (2010). “On Folly Beach”, p.38, Penguin

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• The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

  Saul Williams

  Moon, Imagination, Wander

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Patriotic, Eye, Voice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Book, Mean

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 2

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• Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liars, Men, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Citizen of the Galaxy”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Air, Gone

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• You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

  Emily Giffin

  Trying, Factors, Ifs

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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