Black Jewels Quotes

#1. Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

Christian Dior

#2. God, the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life was giving up what he wanted so that the woman he
loved could get what she needed.

Bella Andre

#3. Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Junot Diaz

#4. One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Alice Munro

#5. Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Holly Black

#6. When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

John Weitz

#7. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Diane Samuels

#8. Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

George Chapman

#9. We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Francesco Guicciardini

#10. When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Anurag Kashyap

#11. Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Are you already assuming there's an us?"
"I'm getting ready for when there is.

Rebecca Donovan

#13. I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

Anne Bishop

#14. It would be erroneous to argue that the Reformation broke with the medieval Catholic paradigm in every respect. Some elements of Protestantism were in fact a continuation, even if in a new form, of what typified the Catholic model also.

David J. Bosch

#15. Hauk said under his breath. "Since I've obviously been doing something wrong - " "Yeah," Jayne raked him with a sneer, "lay off the cheap 'hos, and try finding a decent woman for once." Hauk

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. In the gray world above, I hear myself howling with laughter. Far below me, in the psychic abyss that is part of the Darkness, I hear another howling, one full of joy and pain, rage and celebration.
Not just another witch is coming, my foolish Sisters, but Witch.

Anne Bishop

#17. ...this boy I had known for less than a heartbeat, was the boy of my dreams. Only my dreams were nightmares.

Danielle Paige

#18. Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Molly Ringwald

#19. She was already gone though, weaving through the party as fast as she could. She was putting as much distance between us as possible, building on don't until it wasn't just a word, it was a wall.

R.S. Grey

#20. From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

Buzz Aldrin

#21. And the Lady's mate. Despite having only two legs and small fangs, there was much that was feline in that one, and he approved.

Anne Bishop

#22. The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

William Booth

#23. Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Christopher Marlowe