Wind Quotes - Page 13

• I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Drifting Off, Dust

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.259, Hachette UK

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• I wanna be inside your heaven Take me to the place you cry from Where the storm blows your way I wanna be the earth that holds you Every bit of air you're breathin' in A soothin' wind I wanna be inside your heaven

  Carrie Underwood

  Blow, Air, Heaven

  Song: Inside Your Heaven, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Gathering

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• You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feet, Compass, Away From Each Other

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'" Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Fall, Kids

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• -She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

  Christine Feehan

  Cages, Dies, Beside You

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• To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Lonely, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Sea”

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• when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Block, Night

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• It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Fire, Hair

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1129, Dell

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• I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

  Ezra Pound

  Moving, Writing, Forgiving

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, James Longenbach (1991). “Ezra Pound's poetry and prose: contributions to periodicals”

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• Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.

  Eddie Vedder

  Night, Hair, Tree

  Song: Guaranteed, Album: Into The Wild, 2007

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• Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Secret

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• Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.

  Christine Feehan

  Strong, Ocean, Passion

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• I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colors stretched against the wind. Listen to me: these men know nothing of love. You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Lying, Love You

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.56, Penguin

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• It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Moving, Eye

  "Scenes from a provincial life" by AS Byatt, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Spring, Sunday

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2000.

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• I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Liberty

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Men, Curves

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Fighting, Stronger, Secret Garden

  "Charming Novels of Classic Heroines".

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• You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Pie, Magic, Use

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• Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in.

  Katy Perry

  Blow, House Of Cards, Bags

  "Song: "Firework" (Album: "Teenage Dream")". 2010.

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• The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

  Haruki Murakami

  Bird, Important, Littles

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1995.

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Passion, Earthquakes

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

  Che Guevara

  Adventure, Would Be, World

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

  Haruki Murakami

  Littles, Cry, Bits

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