Wet Quotes - Page 27

• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  Alexander Blok

  Blood, Land, Rivers

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• We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.

  William George Jordan

  Pain, Struggle, Character

  William George Jordan (1901). “The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].”

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• Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, 'what are you smiling about?' But I already know the answer: 'It just gets better from here.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Glasses, Self, Expression

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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• "This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth.

  Doug Stanhope

  Dying, Tadpoles, Mouths

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

  David Bowick

  Kids, Two, Feet

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• Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

  Steig Larsson

  Dream, Charity, Capitalist

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• You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Rivers, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

  Steven Moffat

  Fall, Swimming, Doctors

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• When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Running, Fall, Boston

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• One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

  Gayle Forman

  Player, Men, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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• Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Wise, Running, Stupid

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library

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• Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Loneliness, Character

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Soul, Way

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• Isn’t he gorgeous?” With those rolls, the wet-sounding grunts, bulbous wiggly tail, and smashed face—not to mention the fart the dog let out once he situated himself—he was gorgeous in a way that only a parent could appreciate.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dog, Appreciate, Parent

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• A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

  Brent Weeks

  Boys, Missing, Target

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• She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

  George MacDonald

  Hurt, Knowing, Tears

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.2392, e-artnow

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• You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Lonely, Rain, Fall

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• Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Paper, Stink

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• You think he’s still alive?” Royce asked, nodding his head toward Alric. “Sure,” Hadrian replied without bothering to look. “He’s probably sleeping. Why do you ask?” “I was just pondering something. Do you think a person could smother in a wet potato bag?” Hadrian lifted his head and looked over at the motionless prince. “I really hadn’t thought about it until now.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Sleep, Thinking, Hadrian

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.67, Ridan Publishing

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• I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Dad, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.274, Penguin

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• And then she said nothing else, for Henry put his arms around her and kissed her. Kissed her in such a way that she no longer felt plain, or conscious of her hair or the ink spot on her dress or anything but Henry, whom she had always loved. Tears welled up and spilled down her cheeks, and when he drew away, he touched her wet face wonderingly. "Really," he said. "You love me, too, Lottie?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Tears, Ink

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.852, Simon and Schuster

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• I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

  Robin Hobb

  Horse, Lying, Past

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• What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. It's all him and nothing else, inside.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Men, Self

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• Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Sunday, Hands

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.855, Jane Austen

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