Glasses Quotes - Page 11

• You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Swimming, World, Fishes

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.592, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Hair, Ideas

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• He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Light, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Writing, Night

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.88, BookBaby

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• This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

  Emily Giffin

  Half, Empty, Should

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, School, Dark

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• I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dark, Light, Fog

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• She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.

  Christina Dodd

  Art, Strong, Eye

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• I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mean, People, House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Light, Car, World

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Moving, Sadness

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.17, Penguin

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Mind

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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• When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not.

  Richelle Mead

  Fire, Cups, Suits

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.658, Penguin

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• For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Unyielding, Outsiders

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

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• Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thoughtful, Color, Together

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Moles, Retorts

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Eye, Light

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1317, Penguin

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• As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Mirrors, Light

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• Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

  Monique Truong

  Night, Alcohol, December

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

  Mina Loy

  Eye, Pouring, Ears

  Mina Loy, Maeera Shreiber, Keith Tuma (1998). “Mina Loy: woman and poet”, Natl Poetry Foundation

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• Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

  Lorrie Moore

  Ice, Cubs, Faster

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.204, Vintage

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• You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Doors, Long

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• We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sorry, Father, Son

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.2395, Dell

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• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

  David Almond

  Garden, Voice, Puff

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• Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

  Jim Butcher

  Principles, Lines, Tests

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.12, Penguin

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