Quotes of: Slows Keyword

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

Illusions

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

Kidnapped

Choose your tempo,” he whispered in her ear. “What?” “Fast and hard or slow and easy. Your tempo, your choice. You get to direct this symphony.

Scoring

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

Steal from the Devil

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

My Sister's Keeper

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Mansfield Park

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Matriarch

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

Love is a Dog from Hell

There is earth below your earth, a deep room where gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood through a body.

The Lease

Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.

Magic in the Backyard

Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.

The Shattered Mountain

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Startide Rising

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

The Shadow of the Wind

The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.

The Traitor Game

Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds. How? Nobody knows. Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...

Poems of Darkness

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

I know,” he says, and it’s the strangest thing. I can tell he’s smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.

Power Play

A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like you.

Tremble