Slips Quotes - Page 18

I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Libba Bray

Feelings, Needs, Pages

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A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.

Cecelia Ahern

Hate, Love You, Eye

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The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Rachel Vincent

Memories, Nice, Sticks

Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.412, Harlequin

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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Drinking, Character, Alcohol

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.607, Delphi Classics

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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

Suzanne Collins

Hands, Names, Voice

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.

Harlan Coben

Moving, Dark, Night

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Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

Cheyenne McCray

Hands, Forgiving, Yeah

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But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Anne Michaels

Darkness, Grace, World

Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.175, Emblem Editions

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I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression, Hate, People

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

Rachel Vincent

Pain, Heart, Grasping

Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.367, MIRA

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He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.

Richard Yates

Thinking, Mind, Facts

Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.149, Random House

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After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.

Mary Balogh

Love You, Heart, Years

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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

Lauren DeStefano

Husband, Hands, Shadow

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Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Margaret George

Glasses, Dear Ones, Life Is Like

Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.370, Pan Macmillan

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When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like.

Russell Peters

Song, I Like You, Thinking

"How Russell Peters Got The Last Laugh". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2013.

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He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Sorrow, Fingertips

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Cassandra Clare

Water, Matter, Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Neil Gaiman

Dream, Moving, Dark

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.80, A&C Black

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I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

Sylvia Plath

Names, Addresses, Hanging On

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Simone de Beauvoir

Inspiration, Opportunity, Ideas

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She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Her lips brushed over his for the barest of seconds, but it was still a kiss, and when she came to her senses and dared to pull away and look at him, he had the most curious expression on his face. Brodick knew she regretted her sponatenity, but as he stared into her brilliant green eyes, he also knew, with a certainty that shook him to the core, that his life had just been irrevocably changed by this mere slip of a woman.

Julie Garwood

Believe, Eye, Kissing

Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Jodi Picoult

Lying, Almonds, Disease

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Mary Balogh

Past, Quiet, Moments

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...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

David Eddings

Sorry, Elderly, Expression

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He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

Alyson Noel

Disappointment, Doors, Track

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