Quotes of: Wind Keyword

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

A Familiar Rain

My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?

The General's Assistant

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

The Graveyard Book

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

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

The Great Gatsby

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

Graceling

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Gone with the Wind

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say. 'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.

Gone with the Wind

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

There are winter evenings in Massachusetts when there is no wind and the crust on the snow seems to hold in the cold. And if the moon is three-quarters full, its light adds a kind of warmth to the surrounding earth.

The Heretic's Daughter

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

The House of Hades

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Book of a Thousand Days

A brick could be used to not be used. Is my hair waving in the wind, or are your eyes twitching? 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.

Bramblestar's Storm

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a ...

Teju Cole

Love is a winding mountainous road. Do you have an extra unicycle and handlebar mustache I can borrow?

99 Cents For Some Nonsense