Quotes of: Shade Keyword

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was a...

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

What are you doing?” I asked. “Are we getting all Fifty Shades up in here?” He shushed me. “Nothing that dangerous. You won’t need a safe word.

Catching Liam

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Dubliners

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

The Dragon Reborn

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Great Expectations

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint

After

Is this love? The light looks different. Actually the shade looks different. I feel different. Everything is just so different I don't know where to begin...

Katie in Love

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Shade's Children

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Shade of His Hand

... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

Memoirs of My Life

The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

Misery

My love is colorful, like a rainbow that’s only shades of blue. Monochromatic for monoamor.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision.

SHADES OF KEFALONIA: Meditations

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little." He meant a liar.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.

Stork

...never would I trade for some new shape that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade all other pleasures vanish in my heart.

The Poetry of Petrarch

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

White Oleander