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Quotes About Pale

How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast? Her. Belike for want of rain, which I could well beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute: Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
~ William Shakespeare
Ah, why should tears the pale cheek fretFor aught that waneth here below.Let go, let go!
~ Herman Melville
It had a pale body and crept on all fours, with claws as long as one of her fingers.
~ Holly Black
Tana," Aidan said as soon as he saw her. "Tana, they're going to come in as soon as it's dark. They told us." He looked pale and frantic, worse than she remembered him looking when she'd left. "We're going to die, Tana." "Condamné à mort," a voice rasped from the other side of the door. She could hear the creatures whispering to one another in the hall, shifting hungrily, waiting for the sun to set. Her hands shook.
~ Holly Black
Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk
~ Holly Black
Her fingers are as long as flower stalks, her limbs as spindly as sticks of birch. Weed-like strands of black straight hair hang over her mushroom-pale face, half-hiding tiny eyes that gleam with malice.
~ Holly Black
He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.
~ Honore de Balzac
I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I've seen a few.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
I'm going to sleep with my eyes open; already the face is growing larger; growing in the mirror; it is an immense, pale halo slipping in the light...
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
She was setting out china cups in their saucers, her long pale hands almost the same color as the cream china. How do you take yours? Four creams, two sugars, Riley said, still mesmerized by her. She stopped with a small waxed carton in her hand. Really? He's very young, Gabe said. I take mine black. He's very boring, Riley said. Is that real cream?
~ Jennifer Crusie
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
~ Madeline Miller
white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.
~ Unknown
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
~ Yosa Buson
Poor old moon!" chuckled master Nathaniel, who was now in the highest of spirits, "always filching colours with which to paint her own pale face, and all in vain!
~ Unknown
Me pareció más pálida aún. Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles
~ Horacio Quiroga
pero cada mañana amanecía lívida, en
~ Horacio Quiroga
Perhaps all our loves are only a pale reflection always of what glows at the heart of the universe; of the love of the outstretched arms on a cross.
~ Unknown
I have always felt an infamous weakness for the pale youth of the college student and the sickly children of the factories!
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Cop tricks pale in comparison with mother tricks.
~ Craig Johnson
Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful." Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
She was a tiny woman of Oriental extraction, her skin fine and pale, her granite-colored hair worn in a long braid curled up at the back of her head and held with a pair of jade combs.
~ Jim Butcher
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
~ Jim Morrison