Crumple Quotes

#1. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.

Harlan Ellison

#2. She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.

Joss Stirling

#3. You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

J.K. Rowling

#4. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

David Mitchell

#5. What do you think?" he asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry," she said wearily, "it's a pile of utter rubbish. This can't be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time."
"I s'pose this is the man who brought us Crumple-Horned Snorkacks," said Ron.

J.K. Rowling

#6. All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. The Diagonal People.

David Mitchell

#7. He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.

Alex Beecroft

#8. If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.

Ratan Tata

#10. When life disappoints, one must apply one's will, not crumple.

Orna Ross

#11. I hear his denim jeans crumple to the floor and my insides squeal like a horny teenager.

Skyla Madi

#12. Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would've thought she'd murdered someone from the looks she got.

Suzanne Collins

#14. He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

Emmie White

#15. A paper man. How romantic. And when I tire of him, I can just crumple him into a huge ball.

Tess Oliver

#16. This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they're pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.

Heema Shirvaikar

#17. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.

Jandy Nelson

#18. I've watched a never-ending line of relationships crumple around me, with each sordid detail publicized to the world. I couldn't stand to hurt you that way.

Eden Summers

#19. I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

Sylvia Plath

#20. Why did it take me so many years to understand that Night is something you can talk to, something that might even decide to watch over you or kiss you just when you're about to crumple from loneliness?

Sarah Porter

#21. I felt my smile crumple.

Suzanne Rindell

#22. If my life was to be a story, I wanted to take control of the pen. I wanted to change the paper, crumple up what had been written so far and start over. I

Kandi Steiner

#23. Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

Dwight Schultz

#24. He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

Oswald Chambers

#25. In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

Taylor Lautner

#26. Trust izZ likE a papEr... OncE it'Z crumple... It can't bEe peRfec.

NILL

#27. It is not about what happens to you - it is about how you perceive it. How you react to it. That is what you have control over. You can crumple up and die. Or you can be strong. That is what separates girls from women.

Morgan Rice

#28. At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.

Tom Rachman

#29. The terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone ...

Ann Patchett

#30. I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.

Rachel Ward

#31. Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Audre Lorde

#32. They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demons shined brighter, while the wings of the angels were crumpled and bled.

Akshay Vasu