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Quotes About Swirling

she had to think about—whatever it was, she had to think about—something urgent and essential in her own life that was a million pixels swirling in a thunder-cloud about to burst.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.
~ Dave Beard
It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.
~ N.D. Wilson
We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Calamity
Charlie stood at the open door of the Elevator and stared into the swirling vapors. This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical. It was all so deathly quiet, so desolate and empty.
~ Roald Dahl
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
An Aielman in a cage," she said promptly. "A Tuatha'an with a sword. A falcon and a hawk, perching on your shoulders. Both female, I think. And all the rest, of course. What is always there. Darkness swirling 'round you, and
~ Robert Jordan
And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.
~ Esther Forbes
Outside the cottage, the North Wind howled mournfully. The snow flurries from earlier in the day had thickened, and now the wind brought with it a thick, swirling blizzard that blew in over the Marram Marshes and began to cover the land with deep drifts of snow.
~ Angie Sage
the large black birds swirling and dispersing over
~ Joan London
I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting.
~ E. Lockhart
My grail chalice has been filled with an elixir that is perhaps headier than the wine of fact-it is filled with swirling, essential uncertainty and the difficult, mature task of dwelling in such a state.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
~ Margaret Atwood
He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.
~ Margaret Atwood
Dark, horror of darkness my darkness, drowning, swirling around me crashing wave on wave—unspeakable, irresistible headwind, fatal harbor!
~ Sophocles
The swirling mist lay in the bottom of such great bowls like a broth of dreams.
~ banks iain m ii
Felt the world swirling with snow
~ Maureen Johnson
As the iron door swung open, I followed Summer into a plain, gray stone room that held the strangest object I'd ever seen by far. A giant frame, four by four of nothing but obsidian blocks. But instead of a picture, this frame encased a curtain of energy. At least, that's the best way I can describe it. Swirling, purplish pink eddies attracted glowing violet flakes that seemed to appear out of nowhere. And the sound: a high, echoing rasp. Was it breathing? Was it alive?
~ Max Brooks
When we stepped out of the car, I heard the ghosts. Lots of them here, too many, swirling and battling for my attention. My father's won out.
~ Harlan Coben
That's just ridiculous," I breathed, awe and lust swirling through me like some heady elixir.
~ Sophie Jordan
The fate of the world in the balance. A hurricane of enemies swirling around us. It's almost enough to make a guy feel alive again.
~ Brandon Mull
He was running through mists again. Walls, people, buildings faded. Nothing but dark, swirling mists. But the mists had never been his enemy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.
~ Milan Kundera
River Styx, the fearsome Underworld river. Its dark, swirling waters may seem frightening to some, but to me they are the waters of home. I looked up the river. Charon's River Taxi was headed my way.
~ Kate McMullan