Darling Quotes - Page 14

• My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ultraviolet, My Own

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

  Elaine Dundy

  Cynicism, Young, Restoring

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.54, New York Review of Books

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• To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

  Salman Rushdie

  Winning, Land, Needs

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• Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

  John Green

  Rights, Needs, Tonight

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  Alexandra Ripley

  Air, Years, Land

  Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, G K Hall & Co

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• For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

  Walt Whitman

  Race, Pioneers, Bears

  "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" l. 6 (1881)

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• Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

  Freddie Mercury

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

  Nick Cave

  Dine, Cannibal, Sooner Or Later

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• So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.

  Aldous Huxley

  Letting Go, Lying, Fall

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• I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Broken, Brave, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Worry, Stories, Tonight

  Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”

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• Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

  Pietro Aretino

  Home, Men, Deceit

  Pietro Aretino (2003). “The School of Whoredom”, Hesperus Press

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• For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

  Shannon Hale

  Clever, Thinking, Listening

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

  Eva Ibbotson

  Son, Games, Rose

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

  Matt Groening

  Father, Cocky, Cities

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Lisa's Rival"), (1989- ).

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• Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Giving, Want, Whole

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• I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Drinking, Coffee, Moving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

  James M. Barrie

  Responsible, Said, Classical Education

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  Song: Annabel Lee, Album: In Your Dreams

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• Darling," he said distractedly,"about the moon..." "Yes?" "I don't think it matters whether you want it or not." "What are you talking about?" "The moon. I think it's yours." Victoria yawned, not bothering to open her eyes. "Fine. i'm glad to have it." "But--" Robert shook his head. He was growing fanciful. the moon didn't belong to his wife. It didn't follow her, protect her. It certainly didn't wink at anybody. But he stared out the window the rest of the way home, just in case

  Julia Quinn

  Home, Eye, Moon

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