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Quotes About Gray

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. Slow and half opaque.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The winter that Boyd turned fourteen the trees inhabiting the dry river bed were bare from early on and the sky was gray day after day and the trees were pale against it. A cold wind had come down from the north with the earth running under bare poles toward a reckoning whose ledgers would be drawn up and dated only long after all due claims had passed, such is this history.
~ Cormac McCarthy
limestone lies about the eroded land like schools of sunning dolphin, gray channeled backs humped at the infernal sky.
~ Cormac McCarthy
moonlit winter trees bare branches paint gray shadows ghostly risen roots
~ Terri Guillemets
Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...
~ Terri Guillemets
Winter is a white-gray paradise blunted of details — the simple season.
~ Terri Guillemets
cold gray rainy day watching winter's last leaves fall from my cozy bed
~ Terri Guillemets
Why do you want the world to be black and white? It's not.
~ Harriet Evans
A gray day in the spirit world.
~ Leigh Nichols
If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead, glaringly bright and bitterly cold, as if the sky could not decide if it was in a good mood or would spend all day growling. I didn't mind this kind of weather, weather that cannot make up its mind, because I am often the same way, or at least I think I am. I don't know.
~ Lemony Snicket
unpleasant in the world. It is called Lousy Lane. Lousy Lane runs through fields that are a sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so
~ Lemony Snicket
sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the
~ Lemony Snicket
The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
~ Larry Hogan
It is true that some off-label drug use is based on very unsettled science and has more risks. But medicine - and not just cancer care - involves lots of hard choices. And the more serious the disorder, often the more likely it is that for every right and wrong treatment choice there are many other practical decisions painted in shades of gray.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Ancient mirror Macick mirror Shades of gray Hidden Forbidden Within, away Part the mist Macick kissed Call the fey Reveal the past The spell is cast I save the day!
~ P.C. Cast
The board members came in singly and in pairs. They were mostly a lot of calories under gray suits, a lot of talk behind bright ties
~ Pat Conroy
Mist rolled gray and thick over the small coastal town of Sunset Cove, Oregon.
~ Patricia H. Rushford
January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory:
~ Patricia Highsmith
Above the counter where the ranks of crisp shapes behind the glass her neat gray face her hair tight and sparse from her neat gray skull, spectacles in neat gray rims riding approaching like something on a wire, like a cash box in a store. She looked like a librarian. Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done
~ William Faulkner
Low gray cloud pressing down on the sheer gray city. A glimpse of new buildings, through the scaled-down limo's tinted, lace-curtained windows.
~ William Gibson
The receptionist in the cool gray anteroom of the Galerie Duperey might well have grown there, a lovely and likely poisonous plant, rooted behind a slab of polished marble inlaid with an enameled keyboard.
~ William Gibson
New York is gray and slushy and miserable for months. But
~ Christina Baker Kline