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Quotes About Pale

Ses peintures sont blondes et lumineuses, d'une pâleur solide. La lumière tombe blanche et large, éclairant les objets d'une façon douce
~ Émile Zola
Her skin was translucent pale, the complexion of the rich. Money made an excellent sunblock.
~ Emma Bull
Prendergast's face appeared even whiter, his veins even blacker, like a living corpse. He kept twitching, shaking. His eyes shot around him as if he was surrounded by invisible, swooping demons.
~ Rob Lloyd Jones
She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.
~ Robert Jordan
a Myrddraal, like a sleek-moving man with maggot-white skin in black armor, like death made bloodless flesh.
~ Robert Jordan
The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College, and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths, and coaxing into life the daffodils that were peering greenly and perkily up under the windows of the co-eds' dressing-room.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I like to fancy souls as being made out of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers… and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea… and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The evening was bathed in a wonderful silence - and there was a sudden rift in the curdled clouds westward, and a lovely, pale, pinky-green lake of sky with a new moon in it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They were
~ L.M. Montgomery
was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer some sort of teacherflu. Their noses drip, their eyes are rimmed with red. They come to school long enough to infect the staff room then go home sick when the sub shows up.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
~ Alexander Pope
Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Abysm
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
~ Diane Setterfield
I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.
~ Jennifer Niven
That was the problem with being so pale. Well, that and not being able to go out in bright sunlight without turning the color of a lobster and starting to smoke slightly.
~ Jenny Colgan
The adjunct seems paler than usual. He isn't speaking in complete sentences. Would it be possible to...? Do you mind if...? They say when you're lonely you start to lose words.
~ Jenny Offill
My hands grow cold and my flesh creeps; and yet the night is warm. Only the mist is cold, this mysterious mist that trails over the dead and sucks from them their last, creeping life. By morning they will be pale and green and their blood congealed and black.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Spade gestured, and his pale wrist caught my eye. His fourth and fifth fingers stood delicately apart from the other three. It was a hand so faultless, so unaware of itself and almost innocent, I felt his mythos transform into pathos. Here was the lost boy himself. I felt my heart squeeze a bit. This is a dangerous dude, I reminded myself.
~ Erika Schickel
This is really disturbing. I think I'm being scarred as we speak. It's like paranormal porn. Alexis did look a little pale. Do you want me to turn it off? No, are you kidding? I have to see what happens. It's like a car accident, but with tongue. You don't want to look, but you have to.
~ Erin McCarthy
I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went
~ Ernest Hemingway