Wind Quotes - Page 17

• Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

  Eoin Colfer

  Voice, Waiting, What If

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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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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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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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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• Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

  Stephen Colbert

  Eye, Blind, Caution

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• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

  John Green

  Children, Distance, Kids

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• President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

  Ken Follett

  Blow, One Direction, Leader

  Ken Follett (2011). “Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin

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• Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

  Terry Pratchett

  Desire, Ships, Faces

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Ice, Feet

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• Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

  Iris Murdoch

  Doors, Wind Blowing, Smell

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

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• I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

  James M. Barrie

  Away We Go, Teach

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Hair, Pistols

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1912, Dell

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• The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

  Pablo Neruda

  Summer, Goodbye, Song

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• But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Mean, Past

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• She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss

  David Benioff

  Kissing, Winter, Mouths

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.179, Penguin

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• Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Don't Lie To Me, Adrenaline

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  People, Joy, Despair

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• A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Eye, Moon

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• She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet knows nothing of rain or wind. I speak for her; I am her own.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Rain, Sleep

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• Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

  Jessica Sorensen

  Night, Dust, Land

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• If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

  James A. Baldwin

  Hair, Wish, One Day

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• It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.

  Philip K. Dick

  Blood, Class, People

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Hero, Law, Devil

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• There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

  Richard Brautigan

  House, Spiders, Second Thoughts

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