Papery Quotes

#1. O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

#2. How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Elizabeth Cunningham

#3. Once in a while an entire sub-sub-category that had long been thought safely dormant would take wing with an indescribable papery susurrus.

Lev Grossman

#4. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

Sylvia Plath

#5. We spent a century closed up within four walls
and a roof.
We are claustrophobic.
We prefer the sun and the wind and the sea
though it bites some of us
who are made of metal, and tears papery hearts.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. The wind stirred the drying leaves of wild grapevines with a papery rustle behind me, and in the distance a murder of crows passed, squabbling in shrill cries.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. He glided to Jane, took her face in his papery hands, kissed her lightly on her full lips, and then floated back a step.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#9. But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were were moths in
embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery
sound--but at least they were honest

Marian Keyes

#10. They're disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies ...

Veronica Roth

#11. One piece at a time,' the angel hissed, dangling something papery and drenched in dark liquid over Hank's whirling vision.
Hank felt his eyes widen. His skin!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.

Sylvia Plath

#13. She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility.

Kate Morton

#14. Why cannot you be loud in saying 'I love you' ?", she asked.

Me:- It is just because I have got a great depth inside me that will take some time to reach the horizon. But believe me, it would be the loudest of all, anyone has ever heard.

Nishikant

#15. The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.

Edsger Dijkstra

#16. I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Josh Hartnett

#17. It was the best start of the day. A day started with a rejection.
Maybe, by the end of the day, I would spend the majority of my vitality making the thing occur all alone.
Maybe, tonight would be distinctive.

Nishikant

#18. I'm a believer in routine. I like to see people work out at the same time each day.

Jack LaLanne

#19. Love can be all things.
But, Just never enough.

Nishikant

#20. Garch a har?" -Oddjob, Goldfinger

Ian Fleming

#21. You are so adorable. You can never be bad. Everyone has a hysterical part in himself, and I may be that part you. I'm just a lunatic. Maybe, a demon. And you.
You're the world.

Nishikant

#22. Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife.

Ben Macintyre

#23. A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived.

Nishikant

#24. There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

Tasha Smith

#25. The world is made out of Nutella. You just need to stick your tongue out, so that you could really taste it.

Nishikant

#26. In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust?

Nishikant

#27. Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.

Bill Willingham

#28. For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.
And then, she happened one more time in his head.

Nishikant

#29. Until I knew that it was you inside me, who has so much to say, I hesitated writing.

Nishikant

#30. He was lying there on his death bed, and he asked for her as his last wish.
She came with tears in her eyes. He held her hand and said with a smile," I wish I died daily", And then a flat line.

Nishikant