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“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”

Fear Dark Vision Pages Clouds Spread Ink Fragmented Dark Clouds

Author:Garth Nix

“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.”

Firsts Two Different Ends Play Games Steps Player Strange Approach Sitting Cat Meetings Clouds Range Leap Leafs Examining Claws Absorption Grooming

Author:Kij Johnson

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”

“Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author

“To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.”

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”

Happens Race Sky Wind All Things Seasons Clouds Things Happen Good Times

Author:Dan Millman

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”

“Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.”

World Made Hands Millions Darkness Sun Sea Changed Creatures Clouds Casts Tiny Ignorant Innocent Streams Pool Sharks Whales Desolation Brooding Minnows

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.”

Littles Might Worry Clouds Sunshine Vampire Academy Shadow Kiss

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising”

Way Mind Soul Form Black Sky Clouds Your Soul Horizon Stormy Monte Cristo Black Clouds

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes

“Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”

Has Beens Ideas Might Sound Heard Clouds Gentle Sigh Might Have Been Violet Vacuums Pillars Unbound

Author:Lydia Millet

“That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.”

“In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.”

Ends Moments Fall Language Water Wind Shapes Singing Bird Understood Clouds That Moment Sunlight Fountain Beginnings And Ends Ged

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”

Light Darkness Clouds Caring Light Within

Book:British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

Source: British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.”

Ifs Life Effort Duty Clouds

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.”

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.”

Men Heart Book Matter Philosophy Names Felt Black Saws Heard Cry Mines Thousand Understood Clouds Bells Echoes After Death Childbirth Iranian Visceral Slick Semester Asphalt

Book:What we carry: poems

Source: What we carry: poems

“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.”

Ifs Stars Memories Darkness Wind Let Me Clouds Pity Crush Sensations Leaving Me Mock

Book:Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

“All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.”

Years Enjoy Saws Achieve Victory Achievement Findings Illusion Busy Clouds Seeking Burned Ashes Enjoy Life Sustaining Seeking Happiness

Author:Dan Millman

“Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.”

Light Rooms Morning Gone Clouds Ice Dry Ceilings Steam Lonliness Dry Ice

Author:Christopher Moore

“This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.”

Thinking House Lines Dark Crosses Clouds I Realized Circles Invisible Hills Be You Magnificent Flew Rooftops

Book:The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

Source: The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

“Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

Ifs Trying Looks Soul Body Boys Doors Sky Cry Clouds Tiny Staring Convince Slips Far Away Sail Pajamas Gliding Shmuel

Book:The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

Mind Humans Done Might Sun Shining Clouds Painful Human Mind Sudden Change

Book:Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.”

People Way Humans Heart Black Memories Air Sky Clouds Surface Setting Settings Colour Tall Horizon Plastic Coal Undone Glue Unwavering

Author:Markus Zusak

“I'd had a cold that day and wasn't as powerful as usual, otherwise Alyss would never have done so well," Redd said as, in the alcove, the final image dissolved. She blew at the cloud and it drifted out into the crypt. "Has a malicious ruler ever suffered more? I think not.”

Thinking Wells Said Done Powerful Cold Finals Clouds Usual Rulers Malicious

Author:Frank Beddor

“The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out.”

Feels Long Fall Sides White Cities Feet Clouds Violent Holes Bridges Ease Nightmare Buttons Feathers Shaking Puff Chimneys Snoring Sticking Out

Author:Anais Nin

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

Want Should Fall Stars Clouds My Time Celebration Falling Down Rockets

Author:Joanne Harris

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

Night Dies Stars Leaving Clouds Disappear

Author:Andre Breton

“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”

Inspirational Artist Opportunity Difficulty Clouds True Artists

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.”

Way Looks Hands Eye Air Strange Baby Mountain Laughter Ears Musical Clouds Flying Lifts Look Up Roof Wipe Caps Skirts Baskets Ankles Swirls New Eyes Aprons

Author:Patricia McCormick

“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.”

People Ifs Chance Cities Air Sky Flow Rivers Green Rounds Clouds Bridges Dirty Pollution Fog Meadows Balloons Misty Shipping Peeping

Author:Charles Dickens

“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”

World Stories Together Universe Water Wonder Alive Rocks Leaving Clouds Warm Village Blackness Lava

Book:Generation A: A Novel

Source: Generation A: A Novel

“Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.”

Mind Littles Feelings Dream Light Emotion Gone Movement Wake Up Clouds Awake Waking Fragments Silk Strands Bulbs Light Bulb

Book:The Raw Shark Texts

Source: The Raw Shark Texts

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”

Mind Humans Book Written Air Mystery Shapes Clouds Human Mind

Book:Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

Source: Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

I Can Romance Fighting Black Depression Clouds Handle Eclipse Jacob Black

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.”

Way Should Looks Heart Earth Liberty Missing Clouds Scared Guides Chosen Wander My Way Joyous

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.”

“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”

Littles Wanted Fall Grows Stones Plant Clouds Smoke Noses Poison Brown Covered Going Out Falling Down Visualization Berries Boiling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

Source: A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

Light Night Nations Stars Water Crime Tears Scene Died West Leaving Clouds Murderer

Author:Terry Pratchett

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

Heart Kind Stills Mother Fall Causes Family Darkness Trouble Mom Return Adversity Clouds Prosperity Heavy My Mom Motherhood Trials Desert Hard Times Endeavor Mum Mothers Day Tough Times Best Friend Truest Being A Mom Your Mom Being A Mother Mothering Mother Daughter Happy Mothers Day Mother Love Mother's Love Best Mother Mother And Son Your Mum Great Mother Mom And Daughter Inspirational Mothers Mother Proverbs Mothers Day Inspirational Inspirational Motherhood True Best Friend Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Just A Mom Inspiring Motherhood Mothers Day Messages Short Mothers Day Best Mom Great Mom Losing Friends Mother Flower Mom Knows Best Mother Son Inspirational Mom Greatest Mom Joys Of Motherhood Happy Mothers Day Greetings Greatest Mothers Day Mother Son Relationship Motherhood And Love Mothers Day Love Sentimental Mother Mother Son Inspirational Special Mother Wonderful Mother Touching Mother Beautiful Mother And Daughter Beloved Mother

Author:Washington Irving

“The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.”

Ifs World Two Form Left Grows Approach Clouds Horizon Fearful Rolling Fog Closing Mist Blanket Creeps Two Of Us Fencing

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.”

Desire Order Principles Chaos Clouds Mask Meaningless Choreography Idiotic Entropy Maggots

Book:T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.”

Stills Soul Age Sky Shapes Crosses West Clouds Size East Compass Morrow Hue Atlas Yay

Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.”

Thinking Men World Bigs Fall House Walks Behinds This World Stones Clouds Fishes Impressed Mice Soar Frozen Wheat Cattle Hail Kansas Turtles

Book:Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

Source: Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Break Sun Sky Changed Wind Moon Clouds Kingdoms Chains Marvelous Friends For Life

Book:Daphne's Book

Source: Daphne's Book

“I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing and laughing, however moved or sad you feel, when you see the springtime clouds in the sky, the budding branches, moved by the wind, in the bright early sunlight. I'm really looking forward to the spring again. In that piece of Schubert's you can positively feel and smell the breeze and hear the birds and the whole of creation shouting for joy.”

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