Gray Quotes
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.
I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:
You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.
It's not gray, " Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood, " said Jace.
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.
I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.
Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.
Oceanic farness treasures tomorrowMingled tears lost in the sea of sorrowOur immortal love will lead us a way When pale days remain cloudy and grey
So you're a Shadowhunter, ' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.
Thane had never been one of the idealists
History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers
Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him. Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.
Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.
It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.
I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.
The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!
The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers
Today we have made a fetish of choice
Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart.
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey.
I am Tessa Gray, ” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.
... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...
Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave, " she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
