Trickled Quotes

#1. The path turned a hard right and then dumped into a rocky stream. It looked as if a giant had tossed white boulders and the rocks the way children toss marbles. They lay in scrambled heaps, some as large as carriages, others the size of chamber pots. A weak stream trickled around them.

Eloisa James

#2. The life of the person sentenced to this punishment trickled away drop by drop.

Holger Kersten

#3. Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature's elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

Shannon A. Thompson

#4. The red priestess shuddered. Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing her, transforming her. Shimmers of heat traced patterns on her skin, insistent as a lover's hand.

George R R Martin

#5. I heard now the fear in their brightness. It trickled along underneath them like a secret spring.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#6. Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Jay-Z

#7. The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

Margaret Atwood

#8. He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.

James Dashner

#9. An aroma more heavenly than a flight of angels trickled on the breeze. "Coffee!" He breathed the word like a prayer.

Karen Kincy

#10. They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

David Davis

#11. I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

Bob Dole

#12. Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[ ... ]

Barbara Comyns

#13. A bead of sweat began to form on Crowley's forehead, and trickled down into one eye. He flicked it away. Then, with care

Terry Pratchett

#14. Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of a life he had not pursued. And her voice trickled through him, an icicle perpetually melting.

Simon Van Booy

#15. Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had.

Natalia Marx

#16. Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

Ian Somerhalder

#17. tears are a silent passion for suffering-
i found ma self baffeld by hers-
the way they trickled in the presence if moonlight,
driven by the humans didnt undrstand her...

Christopher Poindexter

#18. Upright in my bed, my pulse racing as I untangled myself from my sheets. Beads of sweat trickled down my skin, sticking my t-shirt to my back. I rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times, seeing if my room stayed in place. Nothing budged and I relaxed. It had been a dream, just like it had

Jessica Sorensen

#19. He scrambled to grab a hose and pointed it at us. A pathetic stream of water trickled out.
What are you going to do? Giguhl said. Moisten us?

Jaye Wells

#20. Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon.

Ronel Van Tonder

#21. Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.

Rick Riordan

#22. And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me - I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

Rachel Ward

#23. Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

Peter Kay

#24. It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

Rob Roberge

#25. It was almost nine o'clock. The witching hour, the time the teenaged boys trickled back to the house from wherever they'd hung out during the day.

CeeCee James

#26. This wasn't her room or her bed, and it sure as hell wasn't her body. Tears welled and trickled slowly from eyes not her own. Then the pain started. Still, she couldn't move. She could only endure. Terror clawed

Dale Mayer

#27. There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

Dorothy Parker

#28. Piragua - cold syrup trickled over crushed ice - her favorite treat from her childhood in Viejo San Juan.

Rick Riordan

#29. Eyes are windows to the soul." His voice rang with profound meaning I couldn't grasp. Deep-chested baying alerted us to the approaching pack. Sweat trickled between my shoulder blades. "Curtains are half off at JCPenney," I snapped. "What's your point?

Hailey Edwards

#30. Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

Larisa Alexandrovna

#31. And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

Angela Carter

#32. Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Naomi Klein

#33. 'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

Dee Dee Myers

#34. His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Lewis Carroll

#35. My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

John F. Kerry

#36. At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

Doris Lessing

#37. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.

Margery Williams

#38. Later in the morning Miranda opened her wardrobe and found it full of clammy ghosts that hovered around her body when she put them on. The cold trickled down in the gaps between the material and her chest. Scarecrow girl. She felt proud and nauseous, chosen and moulded by hands that froze.

Helen Oyeyemi

#39. He was as uncontainable as a handful of water: if you squeezed, it trickled away.

Lynn Cullen

#40. The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Georg Buchner

#41. Hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

Lurlene McDaniel