Streaks Quotes - Page 4

• Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

  Beverley Nichols

  Cat, Expression, House

  Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”

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• So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?

  Sarah Dessen

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.125, Penguin

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• I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

  Charlaine Harris

  Life, Years, Mind

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Charlaine Harris: The Lily Bard Mysteries”, p.88, Penguin

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• Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

  Don DeLillo

  Running, Strong, Fall

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake. "And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.

  C.C. Hunter

  Falling In Love, Leaving, Stubborn

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.209, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

  Mariama Bâ

  Mom, Mother, Night

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• Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

  Peter Matthiessen

  Sunset, Dark, Rivers

  Peter Matthiessen (2014). “The Snow Leopard”, p.283, Random House

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• Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Mean, Sticks

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Rain, Eye

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• She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Sarcastic, Developing

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

  Harper Lee

  Wall, Believe, Sweat

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• I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

  L.A. Meyer

  Clothes, Dirt, Knows

  L. A. Meyer (2005). “Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Pain, Littles

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.249, Penguin

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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Hair, Purple

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Stars, Moving, Sky

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Clouds, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.27, OUP Oxford

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• I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Flower, Heart

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• I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.

  Novak Djokovic

  Motivation, Successful, Challenges

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• You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Clueless, Dwarves

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• Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, School, People

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• Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Authority, Used, Definite

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

  Kristin Cashore

  Handsome, Mud, Faces

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.88, Penguin

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