Lays Quotes - Page 28

• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, World

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Myopia, Invisible, Inevitable

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

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• That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

  Arundhati Roy

  Law, Made, Should

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.33, Penguin Books India

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• Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Eye, Blow, Long Grass

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.155, eBookIt.com

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• In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

  Iain Pears

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

  Iain Pears (1999). “An Instance of the Fingerpost”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Sun, Sleepy

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.234, Scholastic Inc.

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• Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Law, Two

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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, Glasses, Myopia

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

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• Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?” I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. “Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.

  Ally Carter

  Crazy, Eye, Voice

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, War, Sleep

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Way, Breeze, Worst

  Susan Wittig Albert (2005). “The Tale of Hill Top Farm”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Integrity, Drinking, Roots

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• Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fate, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

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• I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Lonely, Night, Feet

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

  William Shakespeare

  Firsts, Cry, Enough

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• Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

  Kami Garcia

  Lying, Moving, Blue

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• The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Light, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.27, SCM Press

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• At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.

  Louise Rennison

  Foxes, Hello, Said

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• The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Dwarves, Tunnels

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.339, Penguin UK

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• the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Hands, Battle

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• There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

  Annie Dillard

  Moving, Later In Life, Cells

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

  Lois Lowry

  Dream, Distance, Snow

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Work Out, Orangutans

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.70, Random House

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• Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.

  Mari Mancusi

  Mean, Eye, Names

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• Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Night, Tongue, Cups

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.795, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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