Roiling Quotes

#1. The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.

Patricia A. McKillip

#2. We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.

Lydia Millet

#3. She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

Neil Gaiman

#4. Even the sky a hybrid - here clean and black and starred, there roiling with a brusque signature of cloud or piled in strata like folded linen or the interior of rock.

Stanley Elkin

#5. The fumes of cruciferous vegetables, roiling in plastic bags. Nothing

Emma Cline

#6. The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

David Joy

#7. the fog was fog and yet was not fog. it was liquid and solid, then gas, then a roiling putrescence expanding like a balloon blown with filth.

Tim Curran

#8. Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Caroline Knapp

#10. A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Laura Hillenbrand

#11. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. The cycle repeated itself at inconsistent intervals, creating invisible eddies that brushed against him like fountains of roiling water.

Christopher Paolini

#13. His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.

Fawn Bonning

#16. He fell
from the sinking ship
to the roiling sea
of uncertainty,
into the hands
of the one mermaid
who knew exactly
how to save him.

Kirk Diedrich

#17. Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

Scott Westerfeld

#18. Most of the January firsts in recent memory have involved splitting headaches and roiling stomachs and often being
surprised about where I was waking up. ("No, Officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? Oh. My bad.")

Cate Tiernan

#19. I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.

Paul O'Grady

#20. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

#21. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see. - Sam Roxton

Sophie Kinsella

#22. Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

Barney Frank

#23. Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

Tim Gunn

#25. May your love of hate and hate to love be dusted from this Earth.

Cordelia Malthere

#26. Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#27. The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Thomas Browne

#28. The part of you that is real, that is authentic, was never born and never dies. IT IS INFINITE. See yourself as an infinite being.

Wayne Dyer

#29. Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

Joe Abercrombie