Edges Quotes - Page 18

• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

  E. Lockhart

  Powerful, People, Secret

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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• I wanted him. I arched my back, fully aware of how vulnerable that made me and that I was giving him an invitation. He accepted it and laid me back against the table, bringing his body down on top of mine. That crushing kiss of his moved from my mouth to the nape of my neck. He pushed down the edge of my dress and the bra strap underneath, exposing my shoulder and giving his lips more skin to conquer.

  Richelle Mead

  Crush, Kissing, Giving

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.185, Penguin

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• THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

  Wendell Berry

  Blessed, Heart, Wild Roses

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• My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.

  Richelle Mead

  Nails, Dresses, Lips

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.185, Penguin

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• We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Falling In Love, Talking

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Flower, People, Tea

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2012). “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel”, p.8, Algonquin Books

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• Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mother, Warrior, Men

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.102, Quirk Books

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• I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.

  Hope Edelman

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.37, Da Capo Press

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• If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

  Charles Bukowski

  Brain, Fingertips, You Again

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• Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Light, Blue

  Tom Stoppard (1991). “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead”, Grove/Atlantic

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• I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Night, World, Chaos

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror”, p.220, Del Rey

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• The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

  Rob Bell

  Risk, Needs, Gains

  Rob Bell (2014). “What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moving, Bridges, Over You

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• At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

  Aberjhani

  Pearls, Madness, Howl

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

  Kim Harrison

  Powerful, Magic, Als

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• The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

  Guy Davenport

  Perception, World, Acres

  Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

  Lauren Oliver

  Delirium, Bigger, Single Word

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• By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

  A. A. Milne

  Running, Rivers, Too Late

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.73, Egmont UK

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• The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

  Anderson Cooper

  Travel, Fall, World

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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, Wind

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• But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Waiting, Coming Back

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Different, Tape, World

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.53, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Real, Grandma, Sadness

  Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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