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“You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You....Your eyes, Nora. Those cold, pale gray eyes are surprisingly irresistible.” He tipped his head sideways, as if to study me from a new angle. “And that killer curvy mouth”

Ifs Thinking Years Made Eye School Study Cold Mouths Gray Killers Pale Angle Irresistible Sideways Curvy Gray Eyes

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.”

Church Air Streets Smell Evening Smoke Gray Afternoon Charming Bleeding Downtown Derry

Book:11/22/63: A Novel

Source: 11/22/63: A Novel

“The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.”

Eye Bits Dark Broken Blue Green Glasses Gray Her Eyes Shattered Dots Sparkle Prisms Dark Glasses

Book:Breakfast at Tiffany's

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”

Littles Brain Cells Rely Gray Hercule Poirot

Author:Agatha Christie

“It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.”

Way Wells Said Ends Whole Born Lines Strange Clean Coffee Wounds Whole Life Mysterious Loud Gray Sponges Funny Business

Book:Liesl & Po

Source: Liesl & Po

“McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call me William?" Amy and Dan exchanged glances. As fond as they were of him, they couldn't imagine calling their lawyer by his first name. He saw the hesitation on their faces. "Will?" Amy cleared her throat. Dan fiddled with the new GPS. "How about 'Mac'?" "Mac," Dan said, trying out the name. Mr. McIntyre looked wistful. "I always wanted to be a Mac.”

Thinking Men Trying Firsts Said Moments Wanted Faces Names Saws Imagine Calling Lawyer Call Me Tall Gray Throat Glances Hesitation Macs Amy Gps Boyish

Author:Judy Blundell

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Fall Fire Sky Color Perfection Snow Silver Gray Fierce Repressed Loveliness Snow Falling Clockwork Prince Gray Skies

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.”

“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”

Found Lost Poverty Sea Grew Grew Up Luxury Gray Unbearable Sumptuous

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

“So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.”

People World Littles Able Girl Perfect Investment Call Me Gray Cardigans

Book:The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

Source: The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.”

“Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.”

Ends Done Light Eye Night House Lost Stars Dark Cities Steps Morning Streets Sweet Wind Mouths Stones Empty Breaths Breathe Awakening Hills Dawn Gray Warmth Breeze Empty Streets Trill

Author:Cesare Pavese

“All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”

World Stills Light Lasts Remember Moving Black White Sky Mountain Train Clouds Brilliant Noise Queens Gray Valleys Waking Burned Lowest Catching Daylight Wondrous Overhead Pastel

Book:Train Dreams

Source: Train Dreams

“Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.”

Wells Jobs Paint Suits Gray Yellow Abe Abe Mazur

Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.”

Children Stills Night Sleep Views Streets Arms Bed Kissing Paper Window Lays Photograph Worthy Gray Awkward Exhausted Sheets Pencils Lenses Brooklyn Rainy Breathless Exchanging Leica Gray Days

Author:Patti Smith

“a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand”

Book Hands Light Wanted Night Darkness Gone Pages Window Ghost Evening Sat Gray Pale Smooth Lamps

Author:Ted Kooser

“Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]”

Stills Soul Spirit Hours Dark Loneliness Solitude Silent Crowds Thee Gray Secrecy Tombstone Dark Thoughts

Book:The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

Source: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Nice Expression First Time Gray

Book:The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)

Source: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

Too Much Gray Dorian Grey Portrait Of Dorian Gray

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time”

Thinking Knows World Long Used Guy Long Time Gray Bad Guys Good Guy

Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

“Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.”

Ifs Wells Matter Jobs Term Cases Doubt Color Evidence Strategy Proof Reasonable Gray Shade Irrelevant Attorney Justice System Ifs And Reasonable Doubt Defense Attorneys

Author:Michael Connelly

“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.”

Seems Moving Hours Rounds Flats Gray Grind Disk

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.”

Littles Hard Reason Kids Rich Strange Pages Balls Mark Complicated Drawing Manage Gray Disregard Fathom Ragged Inscrutable

Author:Michael Chabon

“If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”

Ifs Wells Form Fall Found Wise Mouths Sitting Weight Thoughtful Gray Infatuation Prey Suggesting

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins”

Has Beens Age Wife Husband Eternal And Love Gray Husband And Wife Exasperation Duets Scolding

Author:James Rollins

“Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.”

Thinking Knows Giving Firsts Age Girl Voice Forget Pieces Letters Dear Mature Gray Cake Implications Grandma Interrupted Envelopes

Author:Brandon Mull

“Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.”

Areas Shining Smell Gray Cleanliness Gray Area

Book:Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem.”

Mean Dark Wife Becoming Skins My Wife Colour Gray Honour Pale Jem Tessa Gray Pale Skin

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.”

Long Stills White Gone Ears Wings Broke Gray Thick Nails Tails Bats Angle Ceilings Creepy Whips Meter Claws Crawling Stripes Rims Gargoyles

Author:Kim Harrison

“Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!”

Believe Said Caught Refuse Suits Gray Sophie Scarlet

Book:Wizard's Castle

Source: Wizard's Castle

“Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.”

Lost Water Behinds Half Saws Feet Building Wind Wall Happenings Shots Wave Edges Ghost Ice Knees Fallen Giants Gray Camps Void Chasms Glaciers Over The Edge Crevice Riptide

Author:Rick Riordan

“Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.”

Littles Feelings Bigs Next Hours Company Knowing Sky Car Couple Solitude Gray Daydreaming Gray Skies

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.”

World Soul Voice Hair My Soul Gray Handsome Shaking Fondness Grinning Gray Hair

Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.”

Thinking Way Firsts Humans Wells Has Beens Said Enough Found Waiting Doubt Type Tools Plant Damage Staying Gray Gym Gardening Versus Zombie Trust Me Grandma Kent Staying Power

Author:Rachel Caine

“The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?”

Source: Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies Table Our Journey Through the Middle East

“As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.”

Humans Said Filled Dull Gray Gears Henry Branwell

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him.”

Trying Said Eye Remember Faces Understanding Gone Happened Love You Fronts Hair Kissing Mouths Hey His Eyes Touched Silver Gray Laughed Princess Bent Brows Naps Curls Kissing Him

Book:Ascend: A Trylle Novel

Source: Ascend: A Trylle Novel

“She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.”

Source: The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)

“Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.”

Thinking Stills Might Beautiful Mother Father Memories Color Hair Cruelty Spite Gray Scar Clothings Cheeks Armor Tobias

Author:Veronica Roth

“Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.”

Ifs Feels Children Soul Enough Play Hands Used Suffering Sun Streets Cold Terrible Harmony Lovely My Soul Gray Display Unfair Cloudy Exuberance Cloudy Day Days Like This Lovely Day

Author:Paulo Coelho

“It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.”

Ifs Humans Real Facts Used Purpose Certain Brain Trouble Stupid Example Creator Nine Pounds Gray Valleys Unnecessary Delicacy Unexplored Small Gods

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”

Thinking Knows World Real Dream Strong Dark Sky This World Color Flower Broken Wings Flight Gray Wounded Sunrise Midnight Breeze Kites Blooming Flower Broken Things Gray Skies

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots. "Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.”

Knows Want Mean Said Hands Bigs Girl Rocks Stones Fingers Spots Pockets Gray Worn

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“... everything seemed to him a uniform shade of gray- even the people! He had been unable to believe it could rain so much in one place, and so unceasingly. The damp had seemed to come up from the floors and into his bones, so that he'd thought he would eventually sprout mold, in the manner of a tree. "You do get used to it," he said "Even if sometimes you feel as if you out to be able to be wrung out like a washrag." p 311”

People Ifs Feels Believe Said Sometimes Able Used Tree Rain Come Up Bones Gray Shade Uniforms Mold Damp Sprouts

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.”

Knows Way Hands Eye Realizing Clear Praying Blue Sorry Heavy Shoulders Ran Tone Gray Packs Bent Frozen Knocking Blue Eyes Chivalry Classmates Fangirl

Author:Tammara Webber

“Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!”

Past Mirrors Ancient Casts Gray Shade Spells Forbidden Mist Fey Shades Of Gray

Author:P. C. Cast

“It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.”

Men Want Wells Looks May Littles Said Young Laughing Drink Normal Decided Blue Surprise Scared Young Man Shops Silver Gray Mice Costumes Doorways Sophie May Day Perfectly Normal

Author:Diana Wynne Jones