Wind Quotes - Page 20

• I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Night, Tree, Paper

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.21, A&C Black

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• And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

  Susan Branch

  Lakes, Views, House

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• This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Giving, Profound

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around me. I can almost smell the dustiness of the camel, taste the bitterness of saltbush. And when I dream, your warm hands cover my shoulders. Your whispers carry stories and sound like the rustle of spinifex. I still wear that ring, you know... at night, when no one is watching.

  Lucy Christopher

  Dream, Writing, Night

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

  Dylan Thomas

  Moon, Men, Soul

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• When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen

  George R. R. Martin

  Stars, Children, Blow

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.634, Bantam

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• He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

  Julian Barnes

  Grief, Clouds, Weather

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• Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

  Gayle Forman

  Blow, Sometimes, Expecting

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.35, Penguin

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• So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Thinking, Bags

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• He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Rivers, Care

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• Then why are you crying?” “Because of you!” I beat my fists on his chest. “Because I love you, and I don’t know what to do! I can solve almost any problem, but I can’t solve this. I don’t know how to deal with that. And I’m afraid! Afraid for you! Do you know what it’d do to me if something happens to you?” I stopped hitting him and clasped my hands over my own chest, as though there was a danger my heart might fall out. “This! This would break. Shatter. Crumble. Crumble until it was dust.” I dropped my hands. “Blown away on the wind until there was nothing left.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Love You, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

  Ken Kesey

  Time, Spiders, Way

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.191, Penguin

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• Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hair, Hands, Names

  Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.535, Penguin

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• To wind the mighty secrets of the past,
  And turn the key of time.

  Henry Kirke White

  Time, Past, Keys

  Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.92

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• Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Hair, Banking

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Sailing, Port

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving, Sky

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Venture, Faces

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 165), 1895.

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• She danced the dance of flames and fire,
  and the dance of swords and spears;
  she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space,
  and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dance, Stars, Flower

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• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  William Blake

  Moving, Heart, Secret

  William Blake (1973). “The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical: Poems”

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• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Storm, Arches

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Water

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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• Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Long

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• The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
  The deer to the wholesome wold;
  And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Heart, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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