Top 43 Paper Thin Quotes

#1. John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.

Cormac McCarthy

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#2. This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

Tim Vine

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#3. I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Angela Carter

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#4. And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.

Michael Ende

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#5. Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis

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#6. From where she is, the page- her paper-thin future-is infinitely heavy.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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#7. I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.

Lydia Davis

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#8. Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#9. In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic ... "
Take me away from here, take me away from here.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#10. I was just another lost soul screaming through the paper thin hotel walls into the ears of the fucked.

Craig Stone

Paper Thin Quotes #370571
#11. When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it
delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.
It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.
And sometimes it is enough.

Vera Nazarian

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#12. I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper,

Peter Swanson

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#13. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

John Green

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#14. There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

Terry Goodkind

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#15. Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

Cormac McCarthy

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#16. It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#17. The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Brendan Behan

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#18. And from the inside, surrounded by the joy and devotion and loyalty of my friends, the shimmer of rage on the outside of our lives looks paper-thin.

Amie Kaufman

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#19. The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Dick Francis

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#20. Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Bruno Schulz

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#21. She looked paper-thin, and she did not want to say anything that would tear her around the edges.

Mirriam Neal

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#22. These fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which had lived.
They smelled like history.

Lavie Tidhar

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#23. Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret made of? Birdbones and tissue paper. spun glass and straw.

Angela Carter

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#24. Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

Elyse Draper

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#25. The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Robertson Davies

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#26. The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

Yana Toboso

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#27. On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes.

Jo Ann Beard

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#28. It was then that I could feel that the moths in him, with their wings so paper-thin, will never be near enough to the light. They will always want to be nearer - to be inside of it. It was then that I could feel the lost thing in him.

Ava Dellaira

Paper Thin Quotes #1120167
#29. It's a thin line between paper and hate,
Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
Hell or the pearly gates ... I was destined to come,
Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

Nas

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#30. His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.

Larry McMurtry

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#31. Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting throught the wind Wanting to start again Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards One blow from caving in

Katy Perry

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#32. Read ebooks. Trees are paper thin.

Malla Duncan

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#33. The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Peter Hoeg

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#34. BUT TRANSFORMERS ROTF(L) SUCKS BECAUSE IT IS A TERRIBLY TOLD STORY WITH ENDLESS BLOAT, NO MOMENTUM, PAPER THIN CHARACTERIZATION, NO CHARACTER CONSISTENCY, NO ACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS, POORLY ARTICULATED CONFLICTS, ZERO SENSE OF DRAMA, A WEIRD-AS-HELL TONE, AND A WHOLE LOT OF SEXISM AND RACISM TO BOOT.

Film Crit Hulk!

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#35. When we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
with no colours on our skin
We were light and paper thin.
And when we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colours on our skin
'Till you let the Spectrum in.
--Spectrum

Florence + The Machine

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#36. Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

Alexander Pope

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#37. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.

John Green

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#38. Box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked. And he had gotten himself a ring too,

Piper Kerman

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#39. Sam's a - pardon my French - chicken-shit-paper-thin liar whose word is as good as a slaughterhouse bird promising golden eggs." If

Anne McAneny

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#40. The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.

Nikki Rowe

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#41. Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

Tony Alfonso

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#42. A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

Michael Chabon

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#43. The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed.

Gavriel Savit

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