Thinned Quotes

#1. And all their love was thinned with money.

John Steinbeck

#2. Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.

Bruce Brander

#3. I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Kim Hyesoon

#4. The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Dawson shifted, dropping his head into his hand. "Do you ever stop talking?"
"When I'm sleeping," Blake replied.
"And when you're dead," Daemon threw back. "You'll stop talking when you're dead."
Blake's lips thinned. "Point taken.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Caroline's lips thinned, her face flushed. "My husband, sir, has more secrets in his tiny, insignificant mind than the entire British War Department has had on file since its inception." She huffed with pure, disgusted outrage, lowering her gaze to the floor to murmur, "I'll kill him.

Adele Ashworth

#7. Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.

Chesya Burke

#8. I kicked off my boots and sent them flying, took out a few more monsters. The herd thinned. But there was still a freakin' herd.
A & E Kirk (2014-05-26). Drop Dead Demons: The Divinicus Nex Chronicles: Book 2 (Divinicus Nex Chronicles series) (p. 537). A&E Kirk. Kindle Edition.

A&E Kirk

#9. Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

Jennifer Roberson

#10. Have you met my boyfriend?
There. That was a doozy. His eyes narrowed, and his lips thinned into a tight line. Yep, Noah was a mood kill for both of us.

Jeaniene Frost

#11. According to the calendar, it's spring. So why am I still freezing?
Because your blood has thinned over winter. It'll take a while before you're no longer a freeze-baby

Mary Ellis

#12. Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

Denise Richards

#13. What we did see - for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned - was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist's "thing that should not be";

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face.

Denise Richards

#15. Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.

Siegfried Sassoon

#16. Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.

Matsuo Basho

#17. The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

Margaret Drabble

#18. Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

Horace

#19. I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

Ani DiFranco

#20. Can you tell me what happened?"
Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale."
"You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else at this point would be a pick me up.

Jenny B. Jones

#21. It was a character-building week, a week that thinned my hair, put circles underneath my eyes.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#22. These albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit with some plague.

Margaret Atwood

#23. There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

Rose Wilder Lane

#24. It would be better to think that time had soured and thinned and made commonplace a brew that used to sparkle, that difficulties had altered us both, and not for the better.

Alice Munro

#25. Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it.

Brielle A. Marino

#26. Alis's lips thinned, but she said, The next time that fool Lucien gives you advice on how to trap the Suriel, you come to me. Dead chickens, my sagging ass. All you needed to do was offer it a new robe, and it would have groveled at your feet.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. Wheat-Thinned Slut Monkey.

R.S. Grey

#28. Veek clutched her blocky pistol in both hands. A tiny wisp of smoke slipped out of the barrel, thinned, and vanished. The smell of powder wafted around her.

Peter Clines

#29. until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night,

Rosemary Hawley Jarman

#30. More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

Charles R. Swindoll