Honey Quotes - Page 19

• When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.

  George R. R. Martin

  Voice, Thunder, Said

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.233, Bantam

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• Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Daughter, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  May, Phony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1420, BookCaps Study Guides

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• [God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.

  Lynn Austin

  Want

  Lynn Austin (2011). “Wonderland Creek”, p.324, Bethany House

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• Sydney: "You can be Jet if you want, but we are not posing as a couple again" Adrian: "Are you sure? Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding." Sydney: "Why are they all high-calorie foods? And bread pudding isn't really that romantic." Adrian: "Do you want me to call you celery stick instead? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings." - The Indigo Spell

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Pie, Bread Pudding

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• Then Park reached up and wrapped one of her red curls around his honey finger. "Back to missing you," he said, letting it go.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Missing, Let It Go, Curls

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.81, Macmillan

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• His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Eye, Color

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• What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Doctors, Years

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• From the look on your face, I'd say you know him." I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school." Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli

  Janet Evanovich

  School, Looks, Half

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• And I left the aspirin next to the phone with a tall glass of water. Figured you weren’t going to be able to make it to the coffeepot. Take three, turn your ringer off, and sleep. If anything exciting happens, I’ll come and get you.” “I love you, honey.” “So buy me a mink and a nice pair of earrings for our anniversary.” “You got it.

  J.R. Ward

  Nice, Love You, Sleep

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.193, Penguin

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• When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day... Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office... But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn't know you could apply to fatherhood.

  Louis C. K.

  Mother, Running, Dad

  "Comedian Louis C.K.: Finding Laughs Post-Divorce". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 7, 2010.

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Hands, Wish

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• Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Sweet, May, Littles

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey." -"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  White, Tea, Coconuts

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• Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

  Nora Roberts

  Southern

  Nora Roberts (2004). “Blue Dahlia”, p.110, Penguin

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• The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

  Bill Watterson

  Mom, Dad, Hate

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• That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Cutting, Thinking

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love You, Men, Hair

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.52, Hayes Barton Press

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• We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fate, Thinking, Bees

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• I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Caves, Bears, Wells

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• Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Work, Winter

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC

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• The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Freedom, Wings

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• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Eye, Dark

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.66, Vintage

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