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Quotes About Pale

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
~ Walter Brueggemann
God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.
~ William Cullen Bryant
he was tall and lean, had hollow cheeks, thick pale lips, and a nose like a big ragged chunk of granite shoved into his face. His
~ William Kent Krueger
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
~ Bayard Taylor
God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.
~ William C. Bryant
A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
~ David Hayter
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!
~ John Armstrong
He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.
~ Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
Everyone at health food stores and juice bars looked pale and sickly. Healthy-looking people ate at McDonald's.
~ Jason Starr
Prefiero la palidez de este muerto andante al color del mundo entero. Prefiero demorarme y morir en su palidez que vivir a la luz de todos los vivos.
~ Javier Marías
Here. After so long waiting. Her purple eyes. Torn cloak. Skin pale, sheer as ice. Exhausted. But unafraid.
~ Edith Pattou
his hand did quake, And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene, And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come, and goe with tidings from the heart, As it a ronning messenger had beene.
~ Edmund Spenser
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean: The world has grown grey from thy breath!
~ Edward Gibbon
I like my coffee light.
~ Elizabeth Banks
The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two – like pale cousins – never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun.
~ Rene Denfeld
Outside a pale dawn threaded the sky with silver.
~ Rene Denfeld
It is at the heart of the vampire myth. The vampire is dead but also brings death. Because vampires are dead, they are pale, cadaverous, white. They bring themselves a kind of life by sucking the blood of the living, and at such points may appear flushed with red, the colour of life: Hammer
~ Richard Dyer
Chaim Weizmann gives some measure of that totality in the harsher world of the Russian Pale when he writes that "the acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile world.
~ Richard Rhodes
Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.
~ Rick Riordan
They were sisters, the pretty one and the one who lived in her shadow, a pale, chip-toothed, uncertain girl who made too much noise while eating celery.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
The Island was in the center of the kitchen, and perhaps to emphasize its fixed-down nature, had pale brown tiles that mimicked the bricks of a building.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
turning white
~ Ken Follett
Beauty's ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
~ William Shakespeare
'Tis strange that death should sing.I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death.
~ William Shakespeare