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Quotes About Pale

Her short straight oily hair, a lustrous black, sat like a cropped wig about her pale rather waxen Jewish face.
~ Iris Murdoch
I've noticed the customers in health food stores. They are pale, skinny people who usually look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
~ Bill Cosby
Usually, a fire is red and orange and yellow and black. The fire in the library was colorless. You could look right through it, as if it were sheet of glass. Where the flame had any color, it was pale blue. It was so hot that it appeared icy.
~ Susan Orlean
The fire in the library was colorless. You could look right through it, as if it were a sheet of glass. Where the flame had any color, it was pale blue. It was so hot that it appeared icy.
~ Susan Orlean
Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They're very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them.
~ Suzanne Collins
Alma Coin, the president of 13, who just watches. She's fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. I'm somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it's so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end. Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They're very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them. The color of slush that you wish would melt away.
~ Suzanne Collins
She has dyed red hair, but from the roots I imagine it's naturally dark. Her skin is pale and her eyes are a light hazel. She's pretty in a really emo sort of way.
~ Suzanne Young
I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.
~ Elizabeth Mitchell
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
~ Edmund Waller
Her tint, pale and warm—this bewitching bride, Displays a nobly nurtured mien, Courageous and grand like a huntsman, her stride; A tranquil smile and eyes serene.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Que reste-t-il ? C'est affreux, ô mon âme ! Rien qu'un dessin fort pâle, aux trois crayons
~ Charles Baudelaire
What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.
~ Tom Robbins
Pastor of the Warsaw Baptist Church, Dr. Peters was tall, gaunt, and pale, with a weak damp smile and cold damp palms: shaking his hand was like being forced to grasp the flaccid penis of a hypothermic zombie.
~ Tom Robbins
as pale and sad as "lite" beer
~ Toni Morrison
cold city girls—their hearts are hard and pale
~ Caroline Kepnes
Her gaze collided with the duke's. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?
~ Carolyn Jewel
You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.
~ George R. R. Martin
His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh
~ George R.R. Martin
The pale sword came shivering through the air
~ George R.R. Martin
The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. Outside the greater rivers flowed, the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, and they would flow forever, but not so the rivers in her father's hand. Too soon that current would grow still.
~ George R.R. Martin
wrote a book proving that all enduring gifts to society came from those races whose skin color was not exceedingly pale, pointing out that the Norwegians and other Nordic peoples had been in savagery when Egypt and Crete were at the height of their development.
~ George S. Schuyler
few months, there grew up a certain prejudice against all fellow workers who were exceedingly pale.
~ George S. Schuyler
That August, when we arrived, the island lay breathless and sun-drugged in a smouldering, peacock-blue sea under a sky that had been faded to a pale powder-blue by the fierce rays of the sun.
~ Gerald Durrell
brilliant pale green of her eyes, the buttercup yellow of her hair.
~ J.R. Ward