E Quotes
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“Elle se lève. Elle se regarde dans un miroir et ne voit que des cercles : son visage en forme de cercle, sa tête en cercle, la Lune, la Terre et le Soleil en cercle. Elle est un cercle dans un cercle dans un cercle, et tout tourne. Elle se recouche et elle s'endort.”
Source: Elle joue
“Elle se répète: "change de tactique, ma fille, cesse de souffrir, t'es pas obligée de ramasser autant." Mais rien n'y fait. Il y a des gens qui se torturent mieux que d'autres. Dans cette catégorie, au moins, elle se sent championne absolue.”
Source: Bye Bye Blondie
“Elle se sentait consumée par la peine et la douleur. Elle avait été si proche du bonheur.”
Source: Séduire & Conquérir
“Elle set the bags on the floor beside the coffee table. From the first bag she withdrew two notebooks, one black and the other white, and a twelve pack of gel pens. “Facts we can write down in these handy notebooks. I brought gel pens in case you want to color code anything. Because if there’s one thing you should know about me—okay, there are a lot of things you should know about me. But right now, it’s important to know I don’t have much Virgo in my chart. I mean, there’s Jupiter and it’s retrograde and my seventh house is in Virgo, but that’s a whole other story.” And too much to unpack in one night. “However, I aspire to Virgo-level detail orientation and I do it through color-coordinated crafts. Got it?”
That was an ultrasimplification, but it was doubtful Darcy wanted details. Elle believed in astrology, believed the cosmos controlled more than met the eye and that was what Darcy needed to know if this was going to work, if this fake relationship of theirs would ever fool a single soul. She needed to know it, and inside it might make her roll her eyes and despair at how silly Elle was, but outwardly Darcy needed to not scoff at it. Even if this entire charade was pretend, Darcy needed to respect Elle’s beliefs. Respect Elle, or no dice.”
Source: Written in the Stars
“Elle sortit subitement prendre l’air. Je pense souvent à cette expression “prendre l’air”. Cela veut dire que l’on va ailleurs, pour le trouver. Cela veut dire littéralement : où je suis, je m’asphyxie.”
Source: Nos séparations
“Elle tapota légèrement ses joues pour finir de se réveiller complètement. Il fallait absolument qu’elle se lève et aille se laver. Elle bâilla longuement et l’haleine qu’elle avait lui donna la nausée. Elle se frotta les yeux et… Minute papillon ! Un objet étranger et non identifié lui griffa la paupière. Son cœur fit une embardée ce qui lui donna la force nécessaire pour ouvrir brusquement les yeux.
— Merde ! éructa-t-elle en manquant s’étouffer avec sa salive.
Puis elle poussa un hurlement strident.”
Source: Séduire & Conquérir
“Elle toucha ses lèvres, comme pour toucher le fantôme d'un baiser avorté.”
Source: Au pair
“Elle tourna vers moi les yeux à cet instant, mais je n'ose y croire, ce regard fut-il un aveu. Ne me dites pas qu'elle est belle, elle est émouvante. Sa vue imprime à mon coeur un mouvement plus rapide, son absence emplit mon esprit.”
Source: Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
“Elle variait ses hallucinations à son gré. Elle ne se contentait pas du passé; elle escomptait l'avenir! Elle changeait le présent selon sa volonté; elle mentait et se trompait elle-même, mais comme ses mensonges étaient ses propres oeuvres, elle les chérissait. Pour de brefs instants, elle était heureuse. Il n'y avait plus à son bonheur ces limites imposées par le réel. Tout était possible, tout était à sa portée. D'abord, la guerre était finie.”
Source: Suite Française
“Elle voudrait retrouver le grand vent qui fouette et rend vivant. Elle voudrait rejoindre cette part d'elle-même, cette part manquante, parfois entrevue, il y a longtemps. Vaincre cette attraction terrestre qui la cloue au sol.”
Source: Ce matin-là
“Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.”
Source: Happily Ever After
“Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.”
Source: Elle's Magical Shoes
“Elle, you are going to have experiences others only dream of. You will visit Fiori, where the flowers are as big as tractor tires. You will sail on the back of a giant turquoise bird and catch an elevator made of a spider's web. You will ride on the back of Pegasus and be protected by a powerful warrior named Amadeus. You will save so many children as you grow into adulthood. Your mother and I will be so proud of you.”
Source: Elle Burton and the Reflective Portals
“Elle était calme et décidée, des allures de martyre. Il était furieux et empli de haine, un faux-air du Diable.”
Source: Tant que vole la poussière
“Elle était ma drogue. Mon poison autant que mon médicament. Mon pharmakon, vraiment.”
Source: Sylphide
“Elle était morte avec cette joie tragique des cœurs jaloux qui entraînent l'être aimé dans leur mort, et qui disent : personne ne l'aura !”
Source: Les Misérables
“Elle était trop puissante pour lui. Et la puissance des femmes suscitait bien souvent les affres des hommes faibles.”
Source: Les Cités de poussière
“Elle était vide et fatiguée. Loin de tout. Y compris d'elle-même.”
Source: Hytti nro 6
“Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film [Into the Forest], I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.”
“Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.”
“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.”
“Ellen could not imagine what she would do now if Ben had not returned to her life. Would she sit at home and complain to her family and friends about what a jerk her husband was? Drowning in lawsuits with her ex-husband and the costs?”
Source: Anything Can Happen
“Ellen got off the bus at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fiftythird Street. Rosy twilight was gushing out of the brilliant west, glittered in brass and nickel, on buttons, in people's eyes. All the windows on the east side of the avenue were aflame. As she stood with set teeth on the curb waiting to cross, a frail tendril of fragrance brushed her face. A skinny lad with towhair stringy under a foreignlooking cap was offering her arbutus in a basket. She bought a bunch and pressed her nose in it. May woods melted like sugar against her palate.
The whistle blew, gears ground as cars started to pour out of the side streets, the crossing thronged with people. Ellen felt the lad brush against her as he crossed at her side. She shrank away. Through the smell of the arbutus she caught for a second the unwashed smell of his body, the smell of immigrants, of Ellis Island, of crowded tenements. Under all the nickelplated, goldplated streets enameled with May, uneasily she could feel the huddling smell, spreading in dark slow crouching masses like corruption oozing from broken sewers, like a mob. She walked briskly down the cross-street. She went in a door beside a small immaculately polished brass plate.”
Source: Manhattan Transfer
“Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.”
Source: Look Again
“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.”
Source: Number the Stars
“Ellen, he knew now, would marry him if he chose; but he had been sure for years that he would never marry anyone, and he was sure tonight he would never marry Ellen. 'We'd always be either on the peaks, sublimely happy, or in the bleak valleys of anger and despair,' he told himself; and he knew he would prefer to dwell in a pleasant intervale, one of those lovely spots which so often he had seen along a northern river, where the grassy meadows were dotted with tall graceful elms, and quiet deer came feeding, and a little brook sang near-by, and there were friendly hills all about, and perhaps a few mountains, not too closely seen, visible far away.
Yes, it was peace a man wanted. He reflected with an amused smile that Ruth was much more the sort of woman an author ought to marry: self-effacing, strong, serene, with a sense of humor which occasionally revealed itself in her pleasant eyes. But of course there was no question of his marrying Ruth!
For that matter, there was no question of his marrying anyone!”
Source: Leave Her to Heaven
“Ellen Kwame Corkrum is a Liberian politician who works as the managing director of the Liberia Airports Authority and specializes in global leadership, marketing and aviation management in the United States.”
“Ellen Kwame Corkrum is a U.S. military Black Hawk assault helicopter pilot, who previously served as an officer in the United States Army and as a commercial pilot.”
“Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.”
“Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“Ellen’s voice on the telephone was as bright as the slant of the sun dividing the drapes on the lanai windows. “I let you sleep as long as I could.” His watch hands read quarter to ten. She was speaking with an eager carelessness, girl to boy, in case anyone was listening. “Do you want to come out and get me? I’m moving to The Palms.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“Ellen sighs and looks over at Leo. "I did that, didn't I? No goddamn manners. Like a couple of little opossums. This is why they say women can't have it all.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Ellen walks past the lobby in her high heels, stops in her tracks, and turns back around to face Zack.
She points at Marvin. "Is that a goat?"
Zack nods once. "Yes, ma'am."
"In my lobby?"
"Yes, ma'am. But he's a friendly goat."
Ellen plasters on a polite smile. "I don't care if he's a tap-dancing goat. I want him out of here.”
Source: Best Kind of Broken
“Eller plaget den ham, denne erkjennelsen av at en handling, et nederlag eller et øyeblikk av glede aldri utspiller seg så presist som et regnestykke.”
“Elleri yüzlere yeğlerim.
Yüzler,
şimdiki zamanla şişmiş,
aptal,
yabancıdırlar,
anılarıyla hiç uzlaşamazlar
ama ellerin resmi,
hemen hemen dinsel,
uzun sureli bir görgüleri var
ve tarafsız bir içtenlikleri.
Kanıtı: aynaya hiç bakmazlar. Bakışlarını ve duruşlarını hiç hesaplamazlar.”
Source: Dikkatli Ariostos
“ELLERSLIE SECONDARY SCHOOL MOTTO
“Make Wise Use of Your Time”
“Elles disent, honte à toi. Elles disent, tu es domestiquée, gavée, comme les oies dans la cour du fermier qui les engraisse. Elles disent, tu te pavanes, tu n'as d'autre souci que de jouir des biens que te dispensent des maîtres, soucieux de ton bien-être tant qu'ils y sont intéressés. Elles disent, il n'y a pas de spectacle plus affligeant que celui des esclaves qui se complaisent dans leur état de servitude. Elles disent, tu es loin d'avoir la fierté des oiselles sauvages qui lorsqu'on les a emprisonnées refusent de couver leurs œufs. Elles disent, prends exemple sur les oiselles sauvages qui, si elles s'accouplent avec les mâles pour tromper leur ennui, refusent de se reproduire tant qu'elles ne sont pas en liberté.”
“Elles disent, malheureuse, ils t'ont chassée du monde des signes, et cependant ils t'ont donné des noms, ils t'ont appelée esclave, toi malheureuse esclave. Comme des maîtres ils ont exercé leur droit de maître. Ils écrivent de ce droit de donner des noms qu'il va si loin que l'on peut considérer l'origine du langage comme un acte d'autorité émanant de ceux qui dominent. Ainsi ils disent qu'ils ont dit, ceci est telle ou telle chose, ils ont attaché à un objet et à un fait tel vocable et par là ils se le sont pour ainsi dire appropriés. Elles disent, ce faisant ils ont gueulé hurlé de toutes leurs forces pour te réduire au silence. Elles disent, le langage que tu parles t'empoisonne la glotte la langue le palais les lèvres. Elles disent le langage que tu parles est fait de mots qui te tuent. Elles disent, le langage que tu parles est fait de signes qui à proprement parler désignent ce qu'ils se sont appropriés. Ce sur quoi ils n'ont pas mis la main, ce sur quoi ils n'ont pas fondu comme des rapaces aux yeux multiples, cela n'apparaît pas dans le langage que tu parles. Cela se manifeste juste dans l'intervalle que les maîtres n'ont pas pu combler avec leurs mots de propriétaires et de possesseurs, cela peut se chercher dans la lacune, dans tout ce qui n'est pas la continuité de leurs discours, dans le zéro, le O, le cercle parfait que tu inventes pour les emprisonner et pour les vaincre.”
Source: Les Guérillères
“Elles disent, n'est-ce pas magnifique en vérité? Les vases sont debout, les potiches ont attrapé des jambes. Les vases sacrés sont en marche. Elles disent, la pente des collines ne va-t-elle pas repousser leur assaut? Elles disent, les vases désormais vides de semence resserrent leurs flancs. Ils se déplacent lentement d'abord puis de plus en plus vite. Elles disent, c'est le sacrilège, la violation de tous les règlements. Les vases enterrés jusqu'au col et réceptacles des objets les plus divers, spermatozoïdes humains pièces de monnaie fleurs terre messages, elles disent qu'ils se déplacent, lentement d'abord puis de plus en plus vite. A qui demande, pourquoi ces excès? Ne doivent-ils pas avoir la violence en dégoût? Leur constitution n'est-elle pas fragile et dès le premier assaut ne se briseront-ils pas s'ils ne sont pas déjà en miettes pour s'être entrechoqués? Elles disent, écoutez, écoutez, elles crient évohé, évohé, en sautant comme des jeunes chevaux sur les bords de l'Eurotas. En frappant la terre, elles accélèrent leurs mouvements.”
Source: Les Guérillères
“Elles ont le corps pulpeux là où le regard mâle cherche du rebondi, quelque chose de ferme, doux et chaud pour remplir une paume rêche, rarement propre à cause des travaux manuels qui ne sont pas le lot des maîtres au village. Le type usé cherche un corps jeune pour essuyer ses mains crottées d'homme vaillant, un corps-torchon qui sent bon la vanille importée, la mauvaise gousse taillée, puis frottée entre les seins et à l'attache des bras qui n'a pas connu le fil du couteau sur la veine la plus apparente, celle qui pisserait rouge si on la tranchait dans le sens de la mort.”
Source: Malabourg
“Elles étaient convaincues que ces hommes, qui comptaient pourtant parmi eux leurs propres pères, leurs oncles et cousins, "les tueraient s'ils les retrouvaient".”
Source: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
“Elles étaient convaincues que ces hommes, qui comptaient pourtant parmi eux leurs propres pères, leurs oncles et cousins, "les tueraient s'ils les retrouvaient". Sohan Lal l'avait dit-lui même à la Dr Srivastava. À la question "Si les filles avaient été retrouvées vivantes, qu'auriez-vous fait pour laver l'honneur de votre famille ? " , il avait répondu par ces mots : "On les aurait tuées.”
Source: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
“Elles étaient en touffes avec des racines d'or, épanouies, enfoncées dans les ténèbres et qui soulevaient des mottes luisantes de nuit.
(à propos des étoiles)”
“Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?”
Source: Resonance
“Elli."
"Shea," she gasped as he bit softly.
"Show me your undies." Elli broke out in a fit of giggles as Shea smiled against her neck.
"No way."
"What if a get a goal just for you-then can I see your undies?"
"Do they have to be on me?" she asked, playing along. There was no way in hell he would see her in her undies.
"Yes, they do."
"Hmm...no."
"Come on, two goals."
"No."
"Three."
"Okay. Three, and y'all gotta win."
"Deal. Now kiss me."
"That I will do," she said with a grin as she leaned up on her tippy toes to kiss him deeply.
It was probably the first time Elanor Fisher hoped Shea didn't score.”
Source: Taking Shots
“Ellie had a lot of sadness in her life. Sadness of the kind that makes perfectly normal people into poets.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Ellie Pincrest likely would’ve never gotten on that seaplane if she knew one of the other passengers would be dead before the end of the long Memorial Day weekend.”
Source: A Swim for the Dying
“Ellie: Right now I’m wearing that gray skirt suit you like so much.
Jay: You look like a naughty librarian in that thing.
Ellie: That’s why you like it so much?
Jay: I thought you knew.
Ellie: Tonight I’ll wear just the skirt and jacket.”
Source: Sensual Surrender
“Ellie said, “Give me the Pad-i, and I’ll type today.”
“Pad-i?” I asked.
“Yeah. Like ‘Pad Thai,’” she said.
I asked, “What’s wrong with ‘iPad’?”
“I thought it might be fun to change it. You know, see if it catches on.”
Source: Lost in London