Wind Quotes - Page 22

• Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

  Iris Murdoch

  Doors, Wind Blowing, Smell

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

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• Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

  Robert Jordan

  Dragons, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.706, Macmillan

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• It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.

  Philip K. Dick

  Blood, Class, People

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Hero, Law, Devil

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• We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

  Muhammad Asad

  Heart, Thinking, Decision

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.80, The Book Foundation

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• There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

  Richard Brautigan

  House, Spiders, Second Thoughts

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• How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Knowing, Soul, Watches

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

  Jessica Sorensen

  Night, Dust, Land

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• For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Years, People, Matter

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sierra Jensen Collection”, p.89, Multnomah

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• Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. "Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds." Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. "Beware the shadow man." A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. "I'll do my best," she told him.

  Kristen Britain

  Men, Air, Voice

  Kristen Britain (2008). “Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider”, p.20, Penguin

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• And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Let It Go, Kites, Nasty

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.356, OUP Oxford

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• For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

  Annie Proulx

  Pain, Ocean, Fire

  "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.

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• A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Eye, Moon

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  People, Joy, Despair

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Lightning, Lovers

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• The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Desert, Our Love

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• I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour. “No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far above me. Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, I heard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, it said.

  James Patterson

  Crazy, Hate, Wings

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• The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Reality, Sky

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• All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Flower, Sleep, Dark

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Distance, Mountain

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• Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

  Gareth Roberts

  Mistake, Heart, Fighting

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• And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Autumn, Winter, Dresses

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Heart, Night

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Apr 22, 2015

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• Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

  Margaret George

  Betrayal, Rainy Day, Feet

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• There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.

  Rachel Joyce

  Fall, Home, Moon

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