Glasses Quotes - Page 19

• I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

  Maureen Johnson

  Lambs, Lions, Sometimes

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.162, Penguin

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• I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Memories, Broken

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• Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, "Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Wine, Drunk

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

  Ajahn Chah

  Broken, Minutes, Knows

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• I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Summer, Girl, Nice

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Teacher, Travel, Men

  "The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 1, 2011.

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• No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

  Frida Kahlo

  Mother, Eye, Moon

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• Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

  Rachel Cohn

  Should Have, House, Abuse

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• She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

  Raymond Carver

  Daughter, Morning, Nice

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.148, Vintage

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• Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Mirrors, People

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “A arte da brevidade: Contos”, p.7, Autêntica

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• Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.

  Hilary McKay

  Wall, Grandmother, Fire

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• Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dog, Baby, Lying

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.122, Penguin

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• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.

  Lauren Oliver

  Smart, Stupid, Animal

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Peeta looks at the glass again and puts it together. "You mean this will make me puke?" My prep team laughs hysterically. "Of course, so you can keep eating," says Octavia. "I've been in there twice already. Everyone does it, or else how would you have any fun at a feast?

  Suzanne Collins

  Fun, Team, Mean

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Sweet, Artist

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• You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Grateful, Thinking, Half

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

  Kristin Hannah

  Crazy, Gun, People

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband woud never have found me." Michael's gaze lit with admiration, and he lifted his glass in her direction. "At some point I would have realized what I was missing, darling. An I would have come looking for you.

  Sarah MacLean

  Husband, Missing, Admiration

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• His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, Hours, Grain

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, Years, Clear

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• She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Men, Three

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Distance, Myopia, Problem

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

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• I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Self, Keys, Drunk

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• Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mother, Pieces, Milk

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