Wind Quotes - Page 25

• You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

  Margaret Atwood

  Two, Voice, Bird

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 2, 2000.

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• What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• 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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• Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

  Gosho Aoyama

  Strong, Rain, Flower

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• Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

  Richard Curtis

  Stars, Character, Eye

  "Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("Vincent and the Doctor", 2010), www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.

  Justin Cronin

  Rain, Men, Light

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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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• 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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• When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Fighting, Sail, Take Me

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.178, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

  Truman Capote

  Friday, Fall, Sunday

  Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry (1971). “Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia”

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• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Determination, Two, Silence

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• Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight." Mary did not know what "wutherin'" meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house, as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in. But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Wall, Mean, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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• There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

  John le Carre

  Choices, Generations, Littles

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Children, Book

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• Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Leaving, Facts

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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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• Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

  Nancy Farmer

  Air, Sky, Smell

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• Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

  Juliet Marillier

  Song, Flames, Dancing

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Desert, Palaces

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.261, Vintage

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• Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Tired, Land, Wings

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• The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Earth, Cry

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• Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.

  P.W. Catanese

  Ideas, Together, Dandelions

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• When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.

  Jandy Nelson

  Lonely, Grief, House

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.59, Penguin

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• Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

  Paullina Simons

  Sky, Names, Looks

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• Before we met, I'd fly for hours to clear my head," Bones said, his voice reaching me even over the rush of wind. "It was the closest I came to finding peace, but though several of my mates could fly, I always went alone. I never wanted to share this with anyone until you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Voice, Bones, Finding Peace

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