Quotes About Hollows

#1. His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.

Roshani Chokshi

#2. It makes it seem as though there's no door between us at all. The sound of water gathering, cascading, trailing along the planes, ridges, and hollows of his naked body feels more intimate than if he were standing in front of me wearing nothing at all.

Carrie Ryan

#3. His brown eyes were set back in deep hollows, as though he looked out from a place of shadow on all the verities of the world.

Sharon Shinn

#4. Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals.

Na'ama Yehuda

#5. The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.

Dean Koontz

#6. What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

Alice Munro

#7. The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Lucretius

#8. Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.

Jessica Powers

#9. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#10. Miranda put a hand over her face and looked through her fingers, the world in pieces, her father's legs gone, the woman's torso vanished. Now they looked like broken dolls, their jaws clacking, breeze blowing through their hollows.

Helen Oyeyemi

#11. What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.

Kate O'Mara

#13. By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

Ovid

#14. Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you've heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.

Saul Williams

#15. The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.

Bayard Taylor

#16. What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of the heart.

Zora Neale Hurston

#18. Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.

Theodore Roethke

#19. Horrible things don't happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world, where it's just a victim and an attacker and no one to hear any screams. "Hang

Sara Raasch

#20. Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out.
- Justus

Dannika Dark

#21. Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.

Dean Koontz

#22. Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Ovid

#23. But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock.

Hans Christian Andersen

#24. Home is home, no? - whatever layabouts you live with, whatever tempers and timidities. I was glad to glimpse them, and glad to go to my own bed among them, with the right smell and the right hollows holding me ...

Margo Lanagan

#25. At the sound of the word, she saw a land of pine and snow, of sun-bleached cliffs and white-capped seas, a land where light was swallowed in the velvety green of bumps and hollows - a land that she had forgotten.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. Like the wide hollows of eyes marked in cathedrals of stone that left me half-perplexed as a child. A self-portrait of an innocent in this organic of ephemeral societies. Then I know I will be able to flourish viciously. That's the trouble with remembering. You begin to wish.

Abigail George

#27. The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.'
I found this fragment in my old notebooks. The person who wrote that couldn't have known what would happen: how a voice hollows how words you once loved can wither on a page.

Nam Le

#28. Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir

#29. We pass each other notes in the hollows of our collarbones.

Tina May Hall

#30. It makes me feel shitty and alone. I don't want to be alone." He sagged. "But I think maybe I have to be. Even in a crowd of people, my heart will always ache." The statement resonated in the furthest hollows of Baz's soul. "Then we'll be lonely hearts together.

Heidi Cullinan

#31. The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.

Jardine Libaire

#32. Cautiously, the mouth applied to the valve, I breathe. The gas still creeps over the ground and sinks into all hollows. Like a big, soft jellyfish it floats into our shell-hole and lolls there obscenely.

Erich Maria Remarque

#33. I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

Katherine Mansfield

#34. The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.

Morgan Rhodes

#35. Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid

#37. The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...

Jean Ingelow

#38. Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

Franny Billingsley

#39. Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#40. Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

Paula Sharp

#41. It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Rudyard Kipling

#42. the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Laura Vanderkam

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#44. The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Plutarch

#45. Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O'Casey

#46. You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee

Kim Harrison

#47. Water, in flowing, hollows out for itself a channel, which grows broader and deeper; and, after having ceased to flow, it resumes, when it flows again, the path traced by itself before.

James MacKaye

#48. The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.

Frances Mayes

#49. In friendship you are free, you don't hurt much. But love when comes to hurt hollows your identity, peace, mind and body so intensely making blank mind.

Sadashivan Nair

#50. His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands.

Kim Harrison

#51. Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever.

Kim Harrison

#52. A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy ... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.

Gabi Hollows

#53. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.

Kim Harrison

#54. I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

Fred Hollows

#55. No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.

Gabi Hollows

#56. The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Fred Hollows

#57. Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind ... and they just go blind ... they sit around in their huts.

Fred Hollows

#58. I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good ... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.

Gabi Hollows

#59. Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.

Kim Harrison

#60. She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women?

Kim Harrison

#61. I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.

Kim Harrison

#62. That's all kids want to know - that you love them.

Kim Harrison

#63. I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Fred Hollows

#64. I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

Fred Hollows

#65. My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That's all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with all your soul.

Kim Harrison

#66. Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he'd learned when he was five.

Kim Harrison

#67. Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

Fred Hollows

#68. Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo...

Kim Harrison

#69. Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king.

Kim Harrison

#70. When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

Fred Hollows

#71. That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

Kim Harrison

#72. I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.
Rachel Morgan

Kim Harrison

#73. To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

Fred Hollows

#74. He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

Kim Harrison

#75. You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

Fred Hollows