Shapes Quotes - Page 19

• The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Rage, Breasts

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1987). “Selected Tales and Sketches”, p.131, Penguin

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• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

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• She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Animal, Curves, Hands

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

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• There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

  E. Lockhart

  Years, Hot, Fifty

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.143, Hot Key Books

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• Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Differences, People

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• Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

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• In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dark, Black And White, Light

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• It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Healing, Healthy

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• loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

  Tao Lin

  Loneliness, Cutting, Skills

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• Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

  Candace Bushnell

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, People, World

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• Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

  Laurie R. King

  Daughter, Distance, Eye

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• This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Wind, Soul, Mind

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• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

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• It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Joy, Texture

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1853, Dell

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• When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

  Lewis Carroll

  Creativity, Men, Discovery

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

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• When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Eye, Men

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

  James Redfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Color

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of the dagger was set with a single red stone carved in the shape of a rose. She shook her head. "I wouldn't even know how to use that--" He pressed it into her hand, curling her fingers around it. "You'd learn." He dropped his voice. "It's in your blood." She drew her hand back slowly. "All right." "I could give you a thigh sheath to put that in," Isabelle offered. "I've got tons." "CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Hands, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The Lord shapes the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Bears, Lord, Burden

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• I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

  Clive Barker

  Taken, Journey, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Oct 20, 2012

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• A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.

  Li-Young Lee

  Love You, Home, Light

  Li-Young Lee, “The City In Which I Loved You”

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• How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

  Tom Robbins

  Memorable, Personality, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.23, Bantam

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• Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

  Stacy Schiff

  Long, Males, Firsts

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• Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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