Crinkling Quotes

#1. All of us are somewhat beastly, you know," he added.
"He just wears his beastliness where everyone can see it." To my surprise, he chuckled, his eyes crinkling at the corners. "At least you know what you're getting into, right?

Sarah E. Boucher

#2. Can't sleep?" he murmured, the corners of his eyes crinkling.
She blushed, but held his gaze. "Don't wish to sleep."
"Mmm. I can help with that."...
"Do you have anything particular in mind?"
"Everything.

Erica Ridley

#3. I knew where Rose was - the peculiar crinkling of space on space into dimensions that fold like origami and blossom like strange orchids, and which would mark the last good time before the eventual end of everything

Neil Gaiman

#4. I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.

Marya Hornbacher

#5. Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?

Alan Bradley

#6. There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

Astrid Yrigollen

#7. I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. Her whole face changes when she smiles - this eyebrow-lifting, perfect-teeth-showing, eye-crinkling smile I've either never seen or never noticed. She becomes pretty so suddenly that it's almost like a magic trick

John Green

#8. Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

Robert Herrick

#9. Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.

Paul Althaus

#10. For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

William E. Gladstone

#11. When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.

David Malouf

#13. America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Jim Hightower

#14. I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.

Simon Cowell

#15. If you're about to become a stepmother or are currently filling that role, you are gambling that the love you've found and the strength and wisdom that you've acquired will see you through.

Sue Patton Thoele

#16. We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things ...

Herman Melville

#17. Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward ...

Harry Truman

#18. That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.

Matt Corby

#19. It's a good sign when a student goes chasing the wind and catches it,

Patrick Rothfuss

#20. If the horse 'falls' in or out on one shoulder, take the appropriate rein forward so he has nothing to lean on. This effectively encourages more engagement behind

Sylvia Loch

#21. My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Dirk Benedict

#22. A Fat King and A False Queen Won't Be Able
To Buy A Brother's Death Back
by A Sailboat in Italy.
Not Even for a Bloody Country.

P. Hermans
August 17, 2016

Petra Hermans