Sliver Quotes

#1. The smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.

Craig Johnson

#2. Love is a sliver of sunlight peeking through the darkness; a whisper of hope when all is lost.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#3. Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

Natasha Trethewey

#4. A sliver of hope sneaks past my walls and I slam every opening shut. Emotion is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.

Katie McGarry

#5. I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

Hazel Ying Lee

#6. You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most ...

Claude Monet

#7. He turned, a stray slip of moonlight illuminating a sliver of his face, blue eyes glowing almost preternaturally in the darkness.

Kelley Armstrong

#8. There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.

Anthony Doerr

#9. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.

Jennifer Sucevic

#10. The confidence of the entire global financial system rests on the U.S. dollar. Confidence in the dollar rests on the solvency of the Fed's balance sheet. And that solvency rests on a thin sliver of . . . gold.

James Rickards

#11. Something about the Judge Raymond Randolph murder case. Something was wrong. He could feel it deep in his bones, like a sliver buried under the skin.

B. J. Daniels

#12. I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence ... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

Mona Kuhn

#13. The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog.

B.V. Lawson

#14. Reading is the strangest art. Your eye takes a shape, turns it into music, then story, then spirit, so a curl of ink laid long ago by a sliver of reed can become, a thousand years later, your own breath.

Keith Miller

#15. I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

James Salter

#16. He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day.

Hanya Yanagihara

#17. And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal.
That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

N.K. Jemisin

#18. You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."
-Acheron

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. You are here because some sliver of existence within you says that you are a born fighter. That you will put your life before others, and stand when others fall.

Melissa West

#20. More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly by, but from then on, we would never be fully in the dark again.

Sarah Dessen

#21. We could survive as musicians only on our little sliver of the East Coast. We had to get back.

Bruce Springsteen

#22. Yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.

Margaret Atwood

#23. Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

Carrie Latet

#24. There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue was spared by the darkness.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#25. Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Geraldine Brooks

#26. There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm
a sliver of light buried in the darkness.

Norman Ollestad

#27. But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land.

M.L. Stedman

#28. In winter, on the darkest nights, one rejoices even to see the tiniest sliver of a moon.

Marty Rubin

#29. Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress' lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.

Rob Manuel

#30. As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver.

Danny L. Deaube

#31. Witch, do this for me,
Find me a moon
made of longing.
Then cut it sliver thin,
and having cut it,
hang it high
above my beloved's house,
so that she may look up
tonight
and see it,
and seeing it, sigh for me
as I sigh for her,
moon or no moon.

Clive Barker

#32. Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.

Tracy Kidder

#33. If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

Alex Shoumatoff

#34. Outside, the moon is a silver sliver. Every night, the shadow eats a slice of it, until it's nothing but this hollow rind. I feel the same way; with each day, I lose a little more of myself.

Jodi Picoult

#35. I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

Dave Eggers

#36. The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

Rob Manuel

#37. He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

Michael Ondaatje

#38. Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.

Truth Devour

#40. The sage smiled. Sometimes a smile was little more than a sliver of teeth. And sometimes a smile was a knife cutting the world in two: before and after.

Roshani Chokshi

#41. I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight
A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

Tom Waits

#42. God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.

Melissa Coleman

#43. I'm pretty sure my stomach has a sliver in it from rubbing up against my backbone, so back off, bitch.

H.J. Bellus

#44. Overhead the sliver of a moon barely illuminated anything and shadows slunk on every corner.

Katherine McIntyre

#45. Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality.

Miriam Toews

#46. She inches her fingers tighter around my waist. So tight that for a sliver of a second it seems like ... like she's copping a feel of my abs. Okay. That's not even remotely a problem at all. Those rock-solid abs are there for your pleasure, m'lady.

Lauren Blakely

#47. Chase has made me feel a lot of things today, things I thought I'd never feel again - excitement, giddiness, lust, possibility. But the most important one - the one I want to cling to like a girl who's been stumbling around for too long in the dark and has just spotted a sliver of light - is hope.

S.R. Grey

#48. Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.

Langston Hughes

#49. My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Thomas Kyd

#50. A mother burying her child is the only thing that could make one truly long for death - if only for the sliver of hope that she might glimpse her child again.

Emma Chase

#51. Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.

J. Robert Lennon

#52. I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

James Lipton

#53. If the Earth were as old as a person, a typical organism would be born, live and die in a sliver of a second. We are fleeting, transitional creatures, snowflakes fallen on the hearth fire.

Carl Sagan

#54. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

Millicent Ashby

#55. Outside, the crescent moon was high in the sky, shining in its sliver glory.

Melissa De La Cruz

#56. Yet in this big world, even the smallest sliver of a human had purpose.

Nicki Elson

#57. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Veronica Roth

#58. Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

Jennifer Estep

#59. A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon.

Ruta Sepetys

#60. There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Jonathan Maberry

#61. Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you, Barrons, I said coolly. Partly because, for the most minuscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

Karen Marie Moning

#62. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

Connie May Fowler

#63. Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

Lauren Oliver

#64. And even though I no longer really knew what it was, I felt it: a drop of hope. The fog surrounding my life rolled back another inch, and a sliver of blue sky peeked through.

Paul Kalanithi

#65. All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

Peter Watts

#66. One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

Richard Leakey

#67. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.

Jack Todd

#68. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.

Rosamund Lupton

#69. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#70. It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.

Keith Miller

#71. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.

Esther Earl

#72. Earth is but a sliver of the eternal pie.

Danny L. Deaube

#73. From horizon to horizon the sky was filled with stars to within a few degrees of a fresh sliver of moon, a tiny thing lost in the yawn of night.

Greg Bear

#74. For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation's poetry.

John McWhorter

#75. - But we keep on going, he continued, fostering all kinds of crazy hopes. To redeem the lost, some sliver of personal revelation. It's an addiction, like playing the slots, or a game of golf.

Patti Smith

#76. What our consciousness is experiencing is just a sliver of the infinite, multiple realities where we exist simultaneously

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#77. The Misbegotten had, in the last year, been pared to a sliver of itself. They had lost so many brothers and sisters that those who remained could have drowned in the ashes of those who had died.

Laini Taylor

#78. A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

Jock Sturges

#79. The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

Greg Gutfeld

#80. She stood on the edge of night, that sliver of gray between darkness and dawn, that razor-thin line separating the first part of her life and whatever lay ahead.

Anne Blankman

#81. But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars.

Siobhan Davis

#82. If you ever say her name again, I will end you."

My heart takes up permanent residency in my throat. I bet he can see it pulsing in my neck. Once I manage to find a sliver of space to speak past it, I whisper, "Sorry, I'm afraid there's a queue.

Jewel E. Ann

#83. Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator ... it
would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I'd always be in the red.

Pete Wentz

#84. We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara

Masashi Kishimoto

#85. Life isn't about the black and white. It's about finding that little sliver of gray and holding on to it. Your silver lining.

Cassie Graham

#86. A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

Will Self

#87. Beautifully wrapped. She reached for her tape, pulled the end - and got the sliver left on the roll.

Nora Roberts

#88. Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'

Ayelet Waldman

#89. We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

Richard Paul Evans

#90. I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

Adam Rayner

#91. ...Lina longed suddenly for a sliver of that must have been her mother's allure, and talent, and passion, and willingness to embrace her own complicated life.

Tara Conklin

#92. POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Carl Sandburg

#93. Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)

Ally Carter

#94. Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.

Vaclav Smil