Creased Quotes

#1. His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

Arthur Golden

#2. The card was displayed in the post office window between 'Room to let, suit single professional person' and 'Kittens, 12 weeks old, litter trained'. Diana wouldn't have seen it if she hadn't been checking her reflection to see if her new jacket was creased.

Flick Merauld

#3. The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of sole against womb-wall, turning themselves like astronauts in black space - have already creased their soles by the time they emerge into the world.

Robert Macfarlane

#4. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Virginia Woolf

#5. Lily opened the door. "Maude, would you - " She cut herself off. Maude was nowhere in sight, but Caliban was across the room, holding a page of her play to the light of the fire. His eyes were intent, his brow slightly creased - and he was quite obviously reading the page.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#6. Skinner's suits were a constant source of fascination to Robert. They seemed to be made from an alien synthetic fibre that never creased or got dirty. Indeed, it seemed possible that Skinner himself was constructed of the same material.

Christopher Fowler

#7. It's not the type, it's the source. I don't drink human blood."
Her forehead creased, deepening the fine lines already visible. "But you're a vampire."
"I'll just call you Dr. Obvious," I muttered.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. I would have killed everyone of them to get to you. I would have done anything to get you back. Knowing that we were coming here was the only thing that kept me sane." His brow creased. "Though there were a couple times when I went a little insane anyway.

Marissa Meyer

#10. ... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl to its knees and drag its creased and creaking wings.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Reality was that no matter how well he filled out those creased jeans, he truly was forbidden fruit.

Carolyn Brown

#12. The smile that creased his thickish lips reminded me of Baby Bear's bed: not too hard, not too soft, just right.

Stephen King

#13. She had a lined, weathered face that put Roh in mind of the creased leather spines of old books.

Kameron Hurley

#14. The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Madeline Miller

#15. Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

William Carlos Williams

#16. They both wore flat, creased faces that looked like abused rubbery masks.

Rion Amilcar Scott

#17. Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition.

Anthony Doerr

#18. On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.

Lucas Klauss

#19. The story I had written wasn't the creased, stit-smeared paper now sitting in the bottom of the trash can on the street. That page was just a pipeline through which I could transmit my feelings from my minds to his.

Etgar Keret

#20. The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced. I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that I was going to grow old and die.

Ross Macdonald

#21. Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)

Virginia Woolf

#22. people; 'Manners like a creased polyester shirt

Nina George

#23. Someday," she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, "I'm going to break your neck. Then I'm going to saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take my time." Venom's grin creased his cheeks.
"I knew you had it in you, kitty."
(Venom & Sorrow)

Nalini Singh

#24. Her smiles were blurred, as if seen from a moving train. Her eyes always creased at the edges by dreams of leaving.

Rupert Thomson

#25. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

Norlito Baclayen

#26. Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.

Katherine Applegate

#27. One wrong move and I'm sleeping with the fishes?"

Zeus' brow creased in confusion. "Why would you sleep in water?"

Hades looked at his brother like he was a moron. "It's The Godfather...Forget it.

Tellulah Darling

#28. I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

Christopher Bollen

#29. I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

J. J. Hardy

#30. It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#31. That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Frank O'Hara

#32. If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.

Smith Wigglesworth

#33. In your poem, did a prince rescue the princess?"
"No, in fact," he said, his gaze quite fixed in hers, like on that rainy day in the corridor. "Not yet, at least."

-Jacqueline & Cam

Katharine Ashe