Top 100 Shone Quotes
#1. He looked at me again and his eyes shone in the lamplight, or with the inner light of delighted anticipation.
His enthusiasm made him beautiful.
Rachel Hartman
#2. It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter
#3. Eli had shone a light into my world, he'd lit up the dark corners just by existing and even if I walked away now, I knew I'd ache for him.
E.M. Denning
#4. The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.
William Shakespeare
#5. Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. (Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have often supposed, a very whimsical nation.)
Susanna Clarke
#6. The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn't.
Pleasefindthis
#7. It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. "What do you seek in this place?" the shade asked plainly.
Robin Sloan
#8. A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.
Farshad Asl
#9. That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.
J.K. Rowling
#10. I had never felt like that before, as if there were a sort of curse, a merciless force in the light that shone on a world where life is borken and lost, where each new day takes something from the day that precedes it, where suffering is inmovable ...
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#11. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.
H.G.Wells
#14. There were no stars, or if they were they shone like volcanic glass.
J.V. Jones
#15. The night was crisp and the stars shone with a cold blue light like loneliness or infinity.
Christopher Moore
#16. We filled the night air with light and shone brighter than all those millions of glittering stars watching us from the sky.
Kenya Wright
#17. Miranda was dark, like a midnight sky. But as she fell, her eyes shone like stars themselves.
Dyls Downs
#18. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.
James Joyce
#19. He will choose us," Julian said. "We are his family."
Kieran's eye shone. "I wouldn'tbe so sure, young Shadowhunter. Those of the Hunt are loyal to the Hunt."
"He isn't of the Hunt," Emma said. "He is a Blackthorn.
Cassandra Clare
#20. When it finally came up over the battered Baal's Heart, the sun shone down on a sadly diminished crew. Three men were dead from injuries sustained aboard, and another five were missing. Tom was numbered among those presumed swept overboard by the fury of the storm.
Bey Deckard
#21. Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.
Charles Lamb
#22. And the odd thing was, she was beautiful then. It was her awakening, her ... recovery that made her beautiful. After that she just shone.
Jane Urquhart
#23. When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#24. The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.
Henry James
#25. He sent up his song towards the star-land out of his reach, where, circled with light, the planet who ruled his destiny shone unknown and out of ken.
Rabindranath Tagore
#27. Ash looked at me. I saw pain in his eyes, and a little regret, but they shone with such emotion I felt breathless. 'I already have.
Julie Kagawa
#28. The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.
Thomas Hardy
#29. They had reached, she felt, a sunny island where peace dwelt, sanity reigned and the sun forever shone, the blessed island of good boots.
Virginia Woolf
#30. This world was made to be cloaked in gray.
It wouldn't feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.
Darren Shan
#31. Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#32. As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.
Gore Vidal
#33. She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
Jerry Spinelli
#34. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.
T. S. Eliot
#35. I once knew a girl who was like a dying rainbow. Her colors were incomparable, her countenance a whirlwind of brilliance. As much as she shone, however, she faded into nothingness, at times so quickly that I was unsure whether she had existed at all.
Charity Santiago
#36. Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.
Arundhati Roy
#37. He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep.
"Beautiful," he whispered.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone.
Courtney Milan
#39. I can see her. Come close to me, Floy, and tell them," whispered the dying boy, "that the face of the picture of Christ on the staircase at school is not divine enough; the light from it is shining on me now, and the water is shining too, and rippling so fast, so fast." The evening light shone
Charles Dickens
#40. Egypt's prestige abroad was so intact that the "King" of Tyre declared: "All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there" (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).
Cheikh Anta Diop
#41. Innocence was something that grew in the heart and shone through the eyes.
Karen Kingsbury
#42. Before you were born but not before you were made, from the time when the moon
and the sun shone as one, the Trefoil Trident has existed to guard the under kingdom world of the Mer.
C.H. Garbutt
#43. Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun.
Francesca Lia Block
#44. And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon.
Franz Kafka
#45. Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys.
Charlaine Harris
#46. The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
Mary Shelley
#47. Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
William Butler Yeats
#48. Her eyes, they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair, it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band.
James Patterson
#49. Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.
Christina Rossetti
#50. He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back - its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.
Gish Jen
#51. I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
Berkeley Breathed
#52. And the time to say it was days ago, perhaps weeks ago, but it was never said. Like the fireflies she used to keep in Mason jars, the promise of its telling had glowed intermittently.
"I love you," he said. And now the fireflies shone with a constant light.
Kathy Hepinstall
#53. She rubbed at her face to make sure her make-up was blended, unknowingly removing any remaining foundation. Ready! Her brown eyes shone. 'Come on, let's go!
B.R. Maycock
#54. I don't remember her name, but I do remember how her perm shone in the glow of our night-light.
Junot Diaz
#55. It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.
Anusha Atukorala
#56. He softened and looked at me. "Oh, yeah, I met the right man, all right. A fucking miracle. An angel here on earth." His voice was soft as cotton and his eyes shone like diamonds. What could I say to that?
T.A. Webb
#57. It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
Kristin Cashore
#58. was several yards away, Kate spun on her heel, lifting the gun upwards. She took a step back to lead him into the lamp glow that shone bright in a nearby window. If he would attack
Erica Monroe
#59. Remember when you were young?
You shone like the Sun ...
Pink Floyd
#60. She looked up through a haze of pain. At the edge of the garden, a dark figure approached - the silhouette of a man whose eyes shone like miniature headlamps, blinding Reyna. She heard the scrape of iron against leather as he drew another arrow from his quiver.
Rick Riordan
#61. He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.
Isabel Allende
#62. A ray of light peeked through the casket of his heart and shone a ray on the decayed hope there.
- Holt McKnight
Jessica R. Patch
#63. He would soak in that silver glow until it shone from his eyes and sing a long song about hunting and running through the dark wood in the middle of the night.
Ilona Andrews
#64. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid.
Payne Best
#65. She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.
Emma Rose Kraus
#66. Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military moustache, air of dignity immense!
Agatha Christie
#67. O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it.
Aldous Huxley
#68. The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse.
Kate DiCamillo
#69. I don't like days that end without answers. I'll just keep my eyes open and we'll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don't have time to laugh.
Stacey Donovan
#70. It was a clear cold night and the stars shone down upon the mountains as bright and merciless as truth.
George R R Martin
#71. It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.
Jeff Lynne
#72. Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust looked strange and beautiful above the brilliant green grass.
Elizabeth Enright
#73. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein
#74. And the stars blinked
as they watched her carefully
jealous of the way she shone.
Atticus Poetry
#75. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
Upton Sinclair
#76. He grinned, flashing his even white teeth, a wicked gleam shone in his eyes, making her insides melt. "So that's why you remember the last time you saw me? Obviously I made a lasting impression."
"You did. It scarred me for life," she quipped.
Tracey Rogers
#77. The queen is ... busy," Wybert said. "When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine." He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door.
So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.
Charlaine Harris
#78. Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.
James Jones
#79. I had never felt more at home here, here where the stars shone so brightly and the breeze felt like a lover's touch.
Kailin Gow
#80. The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in It and by It. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her Divine Son ... Her love for her hidden God shone in her countenance and communicated its ardor to all about her.
Peter Julian Eymard
#81. I decorated this man like decorating a Christmas tree. His voice spoke jingles of love and his eyes shone like fake lights every time we made love.
Elise Icten
#82. Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.
Helen Cross
#83. The first to greet me was Robbie McNeill, who jumped up from his post at the helm and said, "Welcome aboard, Captain! I cannot tell you how happy I am to meet you!" His handsome Celtic face shone with mischief, and I felt the first gladdening of a spontaneous friendship.
Kate Mulgrew
#84. That night she dreamed about the King again.
She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King's blood-red dragon banner.
Suzannah Rowntree
#85. shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
H.G.Wells
#86. She knelt at the side of my bed, kissed my cheek, and I woke, rubbed my eyes, looked up at her dreamily. The hall light shone in my eyes. There was a halo in her hair. It must have been that Tupperware bowl on her head.
Laura Kasischke
#87. With that they, and many others, left the hall and joined the moving crowd in the street. The night was delightfully cool. Stars shone white in a velvet sky. The dry wind from mountain and desert blew in their faces. Pan
Zane Grey
#88. The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn't know which one.
James S.A. Corey
#89. And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
Madeline Miller
#90. The sun shone into her mouth as into a tulip, and lent it a similar scarlet fire.
Thomas Hardy
#91. My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
Winston Churchill
#92. Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.
Hermann Hesse
#93. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
#94. The Sun shone into my bath water through the West half window, and a big Maltese cat came and rub himself against the tub, watching me curiously. While I scrubbed my grandmother busy herself in the dining room.
Willa Cather
#95. As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
William Bradford
#96. The prose-poems of the Japji envelop us by opening our third eye to the experience of concrete manifestations of nature, the overall circle of light, which shone in the nimbus, which people saw around Nanak's face, lit up by the shimmering glow of the flame which burnt inside him. It
Khushwant Singh
#98. Celaena." She looked back at him, her red gown sweeping around her. His eyes shone as he flashed her a crooked grin. "I missed you this summer."
She met his stare unflinchingly, returning the smile as she said, "I hate to admit it, Sam Cortland, but I missed your sorry ass, too.
Sarah J. Maas
#99. Don't be pessimistic
Because, today, the sun hasn't shone
It probably won't next year
And you'll then be 61
John Walter Bratton
#100. For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance.
Katherine McIntyre
