Shapes Quotes - Page 31

• Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Night, Lasts

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

  Dan Abnett

  Moving, Fighting, People

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• The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Desire, Desire For Knowledge

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.118, Penguin

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• And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

  Lois Lowry

  Memories, Rooms, Our Future

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• I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

  Ian Mcewan

  World, Form, Given

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• LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them. ME: I can't say i agree with that notion. LUCAS: More of both, then.

  Tammara Webber

  Couple, Memories, Needs

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• you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

  David Levithan

  Names, Ask Me, My Time Will Come

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Limits, Sides, Hundred

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

  John Green

  Sky, Stories, Want

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Flower, Apology, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.148, Penguin

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• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Mean, Smell

  Rabindranath Tagore (2010). “My Life In My Words”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love Is, Sea, Different

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

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• Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Letters, Daggers, Down And

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

  Philip Larkin

  Weed, Beach, Distance

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Sadness

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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Believe, Years

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.181, Temple University Press

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• Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Night

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• This time Clary concentrated, trying to focus her mind on Simon-The Simon-ness of him, the shape of the way he thought, the feeling of hearing his voice, the sence of him close. His whispers, his secrets, the way he made her laugh. 'So', she thought conversationally, 'now that I'm in your mind, wnat to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?' Simon jumped. "I heard that! And, no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Laughing, Focus

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• I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

  David Levithan

  Light, Air, Different

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Lines, Sake

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• This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Want, Fit

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• It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Dark, Opportunity

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• Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

  Jennifer Estep

  Art, Flower, Color

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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