Reaper Quotes - Page 2

• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Threshold

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• The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

  Martha Ostenso

  Autumn, Hands, Wind

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  Francis Bacon

  Wings, White, Dumb

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• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Attachment, Hands, Puppets

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

  Tim Lebbon

  Over You, Skins, Sometimes

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Air, Soul, Vampire

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• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hair, Red, Grim Reaper

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• Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

  John Milton

  Death, Lying, Sunset

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• Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Real, Red, Please

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• I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Scythes, Bores, Taunting

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

  Lora Leigh

  Cheer, Grim Reaper, Should

  Lora Leigh (2013). “Elite Ops Complete Series”, p.590, Macmillan

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• Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Exclamation Points, Exclamation Marks

  "The Wit And Wisdom Of Terry Pratchett", www.esquire.com. December 3, 2015.

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• Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Song, Echoes, Rivers

  'The Lady of Shalott' (1832, revised 1842) pt. 1

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• The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

  Kate Atkinson

  Cheerful, Would Be, Letters

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.144, Random House

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• Can we move this along?" a bored voice stated. "I have places to be and people to shag." "Ian, I'm not going to hug you," I stated as I approached him. "I know you like this better." With that, I slapped him hard enough to rock his head to the side. When he'd straightened, he flashed me a wicked grin. "Finally, you give me what I want. Knew you loved me, Reaper.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Moving, Rocks, Voice

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• The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and
  the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all
  of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to
  live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.

  Casey Hudson

  Plot Lines, Civilization, Ideas

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• Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.

  Darynda Jones

  Nice, Should Have, Kind

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.165, St. Martin's Press

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• The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Nature, Men

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• So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

  Rachel Vincent

  Boys, Years, Band

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.344, Harlequin

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• Some day soon, reaper, your mouth is going to be the source of your own destruction." "That does seem likely, doesn’t it?" Tod glanced at me and shrugged. "Until then, it remains a source of my own amusement.

  Rachel Vincent

  Amusement, Mouths, Doe

  FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Sep 11, 2012

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Mother, Hands, Finding Yourself

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• PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Names, Pie

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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