Waif Quotes

#1. She'd looked at herself with a sigh, having hoped her reflection would show something more than the road-weary waif who sighed back at her, bright curls disheveled and darkened by dust, pale eyes reddened and circled by shadows of sleeplessness.

Susanna Kearsley

#2. You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.

Jojo Moyes

#3. The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Henri Barbusse

#4. Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

Tim Dorsey

#5. I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

Clare Balding

#6. waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.

Paul Marciano

#8. He puffed up his chest. Me man, me need more food than tiny waif female.

Samantha Young

#9. It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn't care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure.

Guillermo Del Toro

#10. That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly.

Kim Harrison

#11. I feel badly for those girls who have to be so waif thin, doing those catwalks all the time because, luckily, we're going into a different time - that's what they're saying, at least - in we're appreciating a curvier figure. But to be honest, I couldn't be like an hourglass if I tried.

Christine Teigen

#12. I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

Jaimie Alexander

#13. Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

Alan Parry

#14. I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

Joely Fisher

#15. I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.

Sophia Bush

#16. I am trapped somewhere between consciousness and sleep; a waif-like creature who could easily be carried off by a strong wind, and who would welcome the distraction from her ravaged heart.

Kristen Darling

#17. I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.

Katie Aselton

#18. No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping. At

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#19. once or twice the two of them shared a glimpse of meaning that felt as if a shaft of sunlight had struck through clouds to light up a majestic line of great hills in the distance - something far beyond, and never suspected.

Philip Pullman

#20. It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.

Joseph Fink

#21. Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man

Victor Hugo

#22. O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!

William Shakespeare

#23. I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Ambrose Bierce