Blanched Quotes

#1. Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side.

Richelle Mead

#2. Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
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Michael Perry

#3. Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.

Linda Lafferty

#4. Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.

Chuck Wendig

#5. However in the world did her skin come green? Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.

Gregory Maguire

#6. Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.'
'A maid is still a woman.

Olivia Newport

#7. from our dinner guests. I almost blanched just thinking the word guest.

Melissa Haag

#8. Lady Ligeia," he began again, "is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love."
"Oh, yes. Lovely" Isobel blanched. "I guess the other chick didn't mind at all?

Kelly Creagh

#9. Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and now I've blanched the color from your cheeks and caused you nothing but pain.

H.M. Ward

#10. I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to call the present

Kate Morton

#11. Make us human, they demanded
Agatha blanched. Since when could she understand animals?
Save us, princess, they cried.
Since when could she understand delusional animals?

Soman Chainani

#12. I spotted Dray standing to one side of the room and made my way to him. A mime accosted me along the way, but I did my best Russian-accented English and said, "In my country, we shoot mimes on the spot." The poor guy blanched beneath his white make up and backed away.

Kate Evangelista

#13. Don't you have any pride?" she snapped. He blanched, but she was too angry to stop. "You're like a stray dog I can't get rid of. I want nothing to do with you. Not with your business, not with you. Just go away. Please, just go and stay away.

Elizabeth Camden

#14. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.

Geoffrey Hill

#15. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

Claire Messud

#16. In the notseeing and the hardknowing as though in a cave he seemed to see a diminishing row of suavely shaped urns in moonlight, blanched.

William Faulkner

#17. What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

Lester Bowie

#18. We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

Vernor Vinge

#19. The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

Arundhati Roy

#20. I'm attracted to women, no doubt about it. I'm also attracted to men, apparently. Wonderful. Complicated fellow, my dick.

Sarina Bowen

#21. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.

Steve Maraboli

#22. Belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In

Donna Leon

#23. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

#24. No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

Oprah Winfrey

#25. LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

Cecily Brown

#27. The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H.L. Mencken

#28.
And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time

George Orwell