Lays Quotes - Page 30

• I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Climbing, People

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.254, Zondervan

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• He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.

  Erin Hunter

  Moving, Tired, Ready To Move On

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• I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

  Sylvia Plath

  Departure, Mark, Knowledgeable

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.125, Hamilton Books

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• After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Years, Lasts, Given

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.253, Random House

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• No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Blessed, Heart, Precious Stones

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I’ll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hair, Yellow, Tree

  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.1715, Bantam

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• Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop.” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot.” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.

  Cassandra Clare

  Phones, Guy, Calling

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Grief, Looks, Pace

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.334, St. Martin's Press

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• They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Song, Night

  Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Powerful, Greed, Soul

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• He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

  J. K. Rowling

  Unique, Appreciate, Faces

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost.

  Madeline Miller

  Thinking, Yesterday, Wealth

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• If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?" I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out. "I love your iMac." "I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her." "But you'll be decomposing.

  Darynda Jones

  Journey, Guy, Desert

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• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

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• I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

  Julia Quinn

  Giving, World, Persons

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• "Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cutting, Knives, Waiting

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• Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Book, Men, Opposites

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• Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.

  Ann Aguirre

  Tasks, Earth, Four

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.236, Macmillan

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• As we lay in the semi-dark hours later, we faced each other, sharing his pillow. I'd never felt more connected to anyone.

  Tammara Webber

  Dark, Hours, Connected

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• We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Ought, Earnestness

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

  Karen Chance

  Fighting, Winning, Feelings

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• It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

  Russell Kirk

  College, Typical, Waste

  Russell Kirk (1963). “Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career”

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• She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch.

  Steven Levenkron

  Air, Bridges, Progress

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• -You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

  Tennessee Williams

  Simple, Thinking, Sides

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• But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Matter, Behinds

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.600, Hamilton Books

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