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Quotes About Air

Will's breath smoked in raw air; he was surprised to notice that Murchaud's did not.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He seemed far too small to be the source of the air of wicked malice that surrounded him, but Dust knew better.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Cold air prickled goose pimples on wet flesh.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Long tradition of ship's cats in the navy." "This is the air force, Captain." "I won't tell him if you won't.
~ Elizabeth Bear
His breath streamed the air between them; he was grateful for the drama of the effect.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When the massive door swung open, though, and the puff of escaping air sailed them grandly into the crooked sunlight between the world's vast webworked cables, Rien forgot everything but the cold black fire-pricked vault of the universe stretching out forever, and the wheeling world that framed it on each side.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She tilted her head back reflexively, drinking deep of the night air tainted by the unwholesome sweetness of the Well, looking upward as if the stars were there to help her bear the pain.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The valraven, for all his size and weight, cupped air and settled behind Cristokos silently, except for the hiss of steam and the creak and tick of metal.
~ Elizabeth Bear
This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Its voice reached me as vibrations through the deck, through the air. It set my hairs prickling.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A smell of sandalwood boxes, a kind of glaze on the air from all the chintzes numbed his earthy vitality, he became all ribs and uniform.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
~ Elizabeth George Speare
the house seemed filled with dusty sunlight, which rose politely from wherever it had been resting on floors and windowsills, and then hung motionless and golden in the air until they moved to another room.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Drum sounds rise on the air, and with them, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, I know you are tired, but come. This is the way. —RUMI
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to see every inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, black coat. He'd brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind his ears, and his cheeks looked flushed, no doubt due to the bitter, evening air. He looks like an angel in the winter snow. The thought made me growl in irritation. "Hello, Magpie." I couldn't move. "Adrian.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Better to be like the falcon. Alone. Dependent on nothing but the air beneath her wings. At least for the falcon, the air had more substance than her foolish dreams of love.
~ Elizabeth Rolls
It was the air, really—the clear brightness of the air that in the evenings now held the first chilliness of autumn, and brought with it that subtle undercurrent of old longings and new chances which autumn often brings.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not quite make out how many, and they were no doubt fishing, and Merritt (who disliked fish) wondered how people could spoil such an afternoon, such a sea, such pellucid and radiant air by trying to catch white, flabby, offensive, evil-smelling creatures that would be excessively nasty when cooked.
~ Arthur Machen
There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.
~ B. Traven
I respect Virgin Atlantic's brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.
~ Ben Eine
I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it, and that's it.
~ Mike Braun