Wind Quotes - Page 23

• The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Blow, Night, Tyrants

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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• The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Doe, Firsts

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Blow, Moon

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

  Taylor Swift

  Passionate, Driving, Sin

  Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Sky, Water

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

  Laini Taylor

  Moving, Angel, Army

  "Days of Blood & Starlight". Book by Laini Taylor, November 6, 2012.

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• Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hurt, Stars, Night

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• For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ice, Storm, Stones

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2572, Bantam

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• Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people have never been important to me, Kate Connolly. Puck Connolly." I tip my face up to look at him, finally. The blanket falls off my shoulders, and my hat, too, loosened by the wind. I can't read his expression--his narrow eyes make it difficult. I say, "And now?" Kendrick reaches to turn up the collar on his jacket. He doesn't smile, but he's not as close to frowning as usual. "Thanks for the cake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dirty, Fall, Eye

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• Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hair, Hands, Touching

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• Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Animal, Blow

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• And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winter, Garden, Land

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.812, e-artnow

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• People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, People, Looks

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

  Neal Shusterman

  Corporate, Written

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• My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Thinking, Land

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• I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

  Langston Hughes

  Snow, Looks, Ems

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

  Danielle Steel

  Girl, Crazy, Real

  Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House

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• I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?" He's quiet for a while and I finally lean back to look him in the eyes. He appears conflicted by something and then he sets me down on the ground, lacing his fingers through mine. "Should we see where the wind takes us?" he asks. I stare at my hand in his and then look up at him. "That sounds good to me.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Fall, Eye, Hands

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fighting, People

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• He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

  Robert Jordan

  Son, Dragons, Age

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• ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

  David Wong

  Forever, Life Is, Accidents

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

  Robert Jordan

  Kings, Men, Dragons

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.929, Macmillan

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• When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don't be afraid of the dark! At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet song of the lark. Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed & blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone!

  Douglas Adams

  Dream, Song, Sweet

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