Fabric Quotes - Page 11

• Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Moving, Circles, World

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Shapes, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Skins, Sound, Mouths

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.162, Macmillan

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• I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because, in retrospect, it seems so secure compared to now, when I am so rich and famous and so hated by the authorities in the capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wish, Retrospect, Fit

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.494, Scholastic Inc.

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• Change is the very fabric of our time.

  David Brin

  Our Time

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• Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, Creative

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.414, OUP Oxford

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• Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

  Ann Aguirre

  Naked, Want, Bears

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.145, Penguin

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• He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crush, Powerful, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

  Neal Shusterman

  Loss, Two, Tragedy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Rain, Flower, Eye

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• Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Blessing, People

  Man and Superman (1903) act 3

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• Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

  Tim Wise

  Long, Culture, Embedded

  Tim Wise (2013). “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity”, p.117, City Lights Books

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• So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Clouds, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.27, OUP Oxford

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• The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Clothes, Special, Want

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Labyrinth, Essentials, Fantasy

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• And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.

  Sándor Márai

  Fabric Of Life, Two, Giving

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• I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

  Ani DiFranco

  Offering, Progress, World

  Song: The Slant

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• She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

  Anthony Marra

  Letting Go, Running, Gratitude

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Cat

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Hug, Special

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• Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Change, Soul, Vision

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• The fabric of my faithful love
  No power shall dim or ravel
  Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
  If I should ever travel!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Travel, Faithful, Should

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.31, eBookIt.com

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• To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Torture, Teach

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spirituality, Connected, Seeing

  "Conversations with God - Book 2: An uncommon dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Echoes, Storm

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