Shades Of Earth Quotes

#1. I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.
Always.
Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)

Beth Revis

#2. Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Jacques Pepin

#3. What you really want to know," I say, "is how to make sure we all don't just rip each other apart, right?" The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.

Beth Revis

#4. Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears, - these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.

Victor Hugo

#6. Thus historical descriptions are necessarily ordered by the present state of knowledge, they increase with every transformation and never cease, in turn, to break with themselves

Michel Foucault

#7. I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This - this - this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.

Beth Revis

#8. But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.

Beth Revis

#9. By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the demon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.

Mary Shelley

#10. And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

Naomi Novik

#11. I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.

Beth Revis

#12. The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

Eugene Cernan

#13. What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice."
"Maybe you should hit harder.

Richelle Mead

#14. And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we'll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

Beth Revis

#15. Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.' Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. 'Thanks, Dad. That's helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

Peter F. Hamilton

#16. It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Hector Hugh Munro

#17. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

Joseph Addison

#18. Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

Richard Hooker

#19. It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.

Beth Revis

#20. Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Julian Barnes

#21. Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Dan Gable

#22. My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth. Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige.

Axel

#23. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#24. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

William Butler Yeats