Shapes Quotes - Page 27

• To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

  Nicole Krauss

  Eye, Names, Space

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.188, Anchor

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• Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Names, Sorrow

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• They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Survival, Together

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.58, Random House

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• I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, what acts she should perform on which date and what she should always or never do or say or want; I eavesdrop on women in cafes while they reel off lists of which jobs a man is allowed, which cars, which labels, which flowers and restaurants and gemstones get the stamp of approval, and I want to shout, Are you people out of your tiny minds?

  Tana French

  Jobs, Flower, Blow

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• Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Son, Color

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• There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

  Dawn French

  Taken, Order, Hey

  "A Tiny Bit Marvellous". Book by Dawn French, 2010.

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• ...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

  Laini Taylor

  Magic, Bones, Starting

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• It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

  Stephen Hawking

  Four, Structure, Gravity

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• The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Once Upon A Time, Phrases, Wonderful

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Cutting, Thinking

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• I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.

  Pablo Neruda

  Everyday, Matter, Fruitfulness

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise. There was only the storm of Barrons and the one I seemed to be, and if there were dark shapes moving in the waters beneath my feet that I should probably take a good hard look at and possibly reconsider trying to swim here, I didn’t care.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moving, Dark, Feet

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.396, Dell

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• Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

  Charles Dickens

  War, Men, Long

  Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Charles Pears, Frederick Barnard (1912*). “Old curiosity shop; coloured reproductions from ... drawing by Fred Barnard”

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• It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

  Jim Butcher

  Past, Events, Too Late

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.225, Penguin

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• The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Forever, Shadow, Makers

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing

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• I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Curves, Gestures

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Simple, Hands

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013

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• It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Taken, Darkness

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

  Douglas Adams

  Hate, Marvin, Universe

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.189, Del Rey

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• What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn’t he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters…No manners whatsoever.” – Sasha “Do we need to get you a Midol before we go?” – Sundown “I’m not that easy to soothe, cowboy. My peeves are on a cellular level.” – Sasha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cowboy, Doors, Barns

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• What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Past, Accumulation

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• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

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• I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Unseen, Roles

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• Dreams shape the world

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, World

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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