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Quotes About Satin

The Devil's lips hovered over Kit's, satin as rose petals, the warm brush of breath on Kit's skin and the warmth of a presence clos enough to stir the fine hairs on his cheeks.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
~ Liz Smith
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
~ Liz Smith
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.
~ Gertrude Stein
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South
~ Lord Byron
I stared at the room full of caskets on display-their lids gaping open like hungry mouths, waiting to swallow up the newly departed. I decided I'd much rather exit this world in a crackle of flames and a swirl of smoke through my ribs than be cooped up for all eternity in a dark box surrounded by puffy white satin.
~ beth hoffman
Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.
~ Gustave Flaubert
She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.
~ Gustave Flaubert
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The next day she'd examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, "I'm thinking about buying two snakes." His are you kidding me "Why?" had caused her to shrug. "I'd name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they'd become Mamma's boots.
~ Gena Showalter
America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.
~ Justin Hayward
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker
Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.
~ J.D. Robb
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker
Endings are lush and lascivious, Vince; they call to me. All spread out on satin inevitabilities, waiting, beckoning, promising impossibly, obscenely elegant solutions—if you've been a good lad and dressed the house just so, for its comfort, for its arousal. All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is must a long seduction of the ending.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?
~ Virgina Woolf
Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? See the stitches curve and crawl Round the cunning seams— Patterns thin and sweet and small As a lady's dreams.
~ Dorothy Parker
Slagged of the hurricane—I, cast within its flow,Congeal by afternoons here, satin and vacant.You have given me the shell, Satan,—carbonic amuletSere of the sun exploded in the sea.
~ Hart Crane
Nice bra." "Israeli," said Heidi. She looked around, taking in the contents of the room. "Jesus Christ," she said. "The wallpaper's like Hendrix's pants." "I think it's satin." Vertically striped, in green, burgundy, ecru, and black.
~ William Gibson
sweat dared to appear under the arms of Gigi Boudakian where sweat should never ever be, creeping down her sides like poison ivy staining a lovely satin garden wall. We
~ Chris Lynch
Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. She
~ Leo Tolstoy
watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart — all complete.
~ Jean Rhys
I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.
~ Jean Rhys