Quotes About Sharp Edges

#1. You know, there's probably a lot of moisture in caves, too, which would be bad for my hair. And all those sharp edges. I wouldn't want to move. I'd just sit in the cave all day long and think about how scared I was to

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. They're like the opposites poles of my personality. Mild-mannered, responsible Reese is who I used to be, while in-your-face Olivia's who I want to be - with a few sharp edges dulled.

Kirsten Hubbard

#3. Just as the ocean wears away the rocks and bends the contour of the shoreline to it's will, so it washes over a man's mind, smoothing the sharp edges, knocking off the conceits, flattening the prejudices so that he is left with a different instrument with which to govern his life.

Frank Mulville

#4. Time has a way of fading the sharp edges of a person's image.

Kristen Callihan

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Blake Crouch

#6. Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Scott Lynch

#7. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.

Helen Oyeyemi

#9. Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

Lisa McMann

#10. All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

Scott Turow

#11. And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper
to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.

Salvador Plascencia

#12. Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.

Dot Hutchison

#14. Sorrow was like sleeping on stone,he (Brenden)decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them,fit them around until they became bearable, and then carry your bed wherever you went.

Patricia A. McKillip

#15. She hadn't had this much to drink in ages, knew she'd pay for it in the morning, but for now, she reveled in this beautiful padding that protected her from the sharp edges of reality
the unanswered questions, the fear that was always with her.

Blake Crouch

#16. We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we'd find ourselves stumbling around in the dark like lost souls.

Karen White

#17. Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.

Charlaine Harris

#18. I love you for your quickness and your brokenness and your sharp edges too.

Cecilia Grant

#19. Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

J.D. Robb

#20. Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.

Nick Harkaway

#21. That's right." He threaded both hands through her hair to hold her in place. "You like it like this. Dirty and rough, getting fucked by a man who wants you so bad he'll risk all your sharp edges. Who fucking loves your sharp edges.

Kit Rocha

#22. and three more for special "assignments." Nathanial provided long stiletto knives for the special training. The narrow knives were all black with thin blades that went straight to a point and sharp edges on both sides. They were design for one purpose, killing.

D.M. Stoddard

#23. Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But her eyes. A milky green, they betrayed an air of vulnerability she seemed desperate to hide.

Laura Oliva

#24. It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges ... Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.

Kathi Appelt

#25. Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.

Robin Hobb

#26. My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

Tamora Pierce

#27. I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

Roberto Bolano

#28. Mary thought that the art of love might just be blindness: the willingness not to see the truth of anything, to blur life's sharp edges and drift on an impression of one's own making, to act as if the life you lived was the life you wanted.

Robin Oliveira

#29. Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#30. I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.

Charity Ferrell

#31. Write down everything you remember. You'll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all the sharp edges off your memory and makes it into a dream that it will have you believe is true.

Dexter Palmer

#32. She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

Rachel Caine

#33. You can never do enough for the dead. You search around for comfort but there is no comfort; there never was and never will be. There is only a gradual wearing away of the sharp edges, so that you don't feel ambushed at every turn, as if you saw the dead suddenly rounding the corner.

Martha Grimes

#34. As quietly as possible he sought around for something, anything, that could be turned into a weapon. Regrettably, they had, when choosing toys for Young Sam, completely neglected the whole area of hard things with sharp edges.

Terry Pratchett

#35. The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Joe Meno

#36. In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges.

John Steinbeck

#37. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.

Kathleen Winter

#38. You know what they say: 'Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges'.

Raymond E. Feist

#39. She's all sharp edges, you know that going in, but you keep catching your fingers on her corners and it's bleeding you dry.

Kara Allen

#40. A whore's truth has too many sharp edges.

Brent Weeks

#41. Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

Gordon Graham

#42. It's strange how you can know something - know the pointy, sharp truth - but still want to bend and blunt the edges so it fits better in your mind.

Veronica Rossi

#43. When you're someone who likes control, this world can often resemble staring into a broken mirror. You see the sharp, ragged edges but lose sight of yourself.

Travis Thrasher

#44. Life wasn't always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges.

Danielle Steel

#45. Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

George R R Martin

#46. Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;

Neel Mukherjee

#47. The two of them fitting, interlocking, like mothers and daughters are supposed to. Fitting in a way that I never have. My edges have always been too sharp, my grooves too deep.

Jasmine Warga

#48. If you ever get that free, you need to reel yourself in, because the edges of the world are as sharp as glass, and if you ride over them you're going to get torn up.

Hilary T. Smith

#49. For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

Grant Bowler

#50. Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Scott Thompson

#51. Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

V.E Schwab

#52. There's an art to life. Some people have talent for it. A boundless hope illuminates them. Where others are vague and tentative, they have only sharp, clear edges. Energy soars; lights burn brighter when they enter a room.

Kathleen Tessaro

#53. It rushes through me, like razor sharp poison, jagged edges catching my skin, tearing me apart on the inside. Everything. Every blissful moment. Every promise. Every kiss. Hug. Word. Touch. Breath. Every single second Ive spent with him, will be gone. I won't know it.

Jessica Sorensen

#54. Bemused and besotted as we are, we still dimly know at heart that nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself.

C.S. Lewis

#55. I refuse to get any more scars from loving edges sharp enough to cut me.

Jessica Gadziala

#56. She wore a steel gray business suit and under the jacket a dark blue shirt and a man's tie of lighter shade. The edges of the folded handkerchief in the breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.

Raymond Chandler

#57. The clean truth of light can sometimes flow through its blackness, beauty seen dimly through darkness, and like life, it is terribly fragile, with edges that can be dangerously sharp.

George R R Martin

#58. When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

Ibi Kaslik