Ebbed Away Quotes

#1. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.

Sharon Kay Penman

#2. Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed away as the thoughts of books, pages, and comfort entered my head.

Rebecca Maizel

#3. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Caroline Norton

#4. Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

Angela Thirkell

#5. After all, our souls are not judged by the sins we accumulate in life, but by the love we take with us after our life has ebbed away.

Alexandrea Weis

#6. Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.

Laini Taylor

#7. Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.

Marilu Henner

#8. I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

Ron Atkinson

#9. As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world.
- Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

Roger Daltrey

#11. The things greater than us, Thora, they're not impossible. It's just fear talking, telling you that you can't when you can. I know you can.

Krista Ritchie

#12. Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. There is a phenomenon called Trail Magic, known and spoken of with reverence by everyone who hikes the trail, which holds that often when things look darkest some little piece of serendipity comes along to put you back on a heavenly plane.

Bill Bryson

#14. I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.

Tim Tebow

#15. I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Patti Smith

#16. The pain of having been so openly rejected was always with him. But now, like the tide, it ebbed and flowed. At times it flowed up to his feet, at other times it withdrew far away, so far away he could barely detect it.

Haruki Murakami

#17. There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Matsuo Basho

#18. Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies.

Leslye Walton

#19. My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#20. Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.

Ellen J. Barrier

#21. I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

Patricia Birch