Moonlight Quotes - Page 10

• Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Cities, Should, Abbey

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Pain, Book

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.865, Ageless Reads

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• I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

  Nathalia Crane

  Heart, Lines, Divine

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

  Dodie Smith

  Writing, Exciting

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.28, St. Martin's Griffin

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• She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

  Janet Fitch

  Ocean, Guitar, Sea

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.652, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Summer, Dirty, Autumn

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• It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

  Dave Grohl

  Musician, Brilliant, Engineers

  "Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

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• There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

  Cameron Diaz

  Games, Body, Happenings

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• Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.137, Penguin

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• I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Empty, Streets, Mistaken

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Adventure, Night

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• I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Girl, Sleep

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.202, BookRix

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• They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Glasses, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.91, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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  Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Listening, Care

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• But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

  Gregory Maguire

  Hero, Heart, Blanket

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, Dark, Sigh Of Relief

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.60, Grove Press

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.

  Alexander Masters

  Believe, Past, Men

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Shadow, Gold

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.284, Delacorte Press

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• Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

  Paullina Simons

  Rivers, Soul, Dawn

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• I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

  John Muir

  Strong, Home, Sun

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.18, e-artnow

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• I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.

  John Connolly

  Running, Dream, Pain

  John Connolly (2015). “Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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