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Quotes About Amber

I think you have my bag," Amber said... "So what are you gonna do? Turn me in?" ... "No, not really." "Then do you want to buy me dinner?" - Clarissa
~ Derek Landy
It's that drunk bitch in the Thirty-second Street bar.
~ Amber Tamblyn
She'd been told her eyes were her best feature, amber with flecks of gold
~ Lauraine Snelling
Blood! I called out. Give me blood and vengeance this day, my warriors, and you will be remembered in Amber forever! And as a man. they raised their weapons and cried out, Blood!
~ Roger Zelazny
there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.
~ Roger Zelazny
Amber casts an infinity of shadows, and my Avalon had cast many of its own, because of my presence there. I might be known on many earths that I had never trod, for shadows of myself had walked them, mimicking imperfectly my deeds and my thoughts.
~ Roger Zelazny
He called the place Amber, and said that it was run by a half-mad family, with the city itself peopled by their bastards and folks whose ancestors they brought in from other places ages ago.
~ Roger Zelazny
Amber has never been noted for its squeamishness," she said. "You have been exposed to too much American journalism.
~ Roger Zelazny
Sve dok nisam došao do ?arobne rije?i. Amber. (...) Rije? bijaše nabijena strahovitom ?ežnjom i golemom nostalgijom. Imala je, zamotan u sebi, osje?aj zaboravljene ljepote, grandioznih dostignu?a i mo?i užasne i gotovo kona?ne. Nekako, ta je rije? pripadala mom rje?niku. I nekako, ja bijah dio nje, a ona dio mene. Bijaše to ime mjesta, znao sam, mjesta koje sam neko? poznavao. Ali nije izazivala nikakve slike, samo osje?aje.
~ Roger Zelazny
child of Amber may walk among them, and such was my heritage. You may call them parallel worlds if you wish, alternate universes if you would, the products of a deranged mind if you care to. I call them shadows, as do all who possess the power to walk among them. We select a possibility and we walk until we reach it. So, in a sense, we create it.
~ Roger Zelazny
I am Dara. Dara of Amber. Queen Dara. I hold this throne by right of blood and conquest.
~ Roger Zelazny
The look I wore must have shocked her, for she turned her gaze back to Lord Golden. She spoke uncertainly. "Amber, my friend. Aren't you glad to see me?
~ Robin Hobb
Take comfort in this, Amber. You are only one small, short-lived creature. You'd have to be a fool to think you could change the course of the whole world." She was silent until she broke out in a shaky laugh. "Oh, Paragon, in that you are more right than you know, my friend.
~ Robin Hobb
The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.
~ Liz Kessler
moonstones. The pebbles had glistened in the wet sand, opalescent in late-day amber light, lighting their path like tiny fallen moons.
~ Luanne Rice
Viriconium, the Pastel City; a little cryptic, a little proud, a little mad. Its histories, as forgotten as his own, made of the air a sort of amber, an entrapment; the geometry of its avenues was a wry message from one survivor to another: and its present, like his own, was but an implication of its past - a dream, a prediction, a brief possibility to be endured.
~ M. John Harrison
The window's amber glass gives a diamond cutout into the world which is one I wouldn't want to be in — leafless and gray with frozen flaques on which to slip and bust your ass, and everyone inside's a bit gray, too, as if the sky's cold hand had caressed then invaded the face.
~ Eleni Sikelianos
I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...
~ John Geddes
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.
~ Elinor Wylie
His shrug rearranged bony shoulders like a ridgeline shifting; the light of the lamp glinted amber in the depths of his eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A man with no name may you claim, heart and body and soul. Then rich life might grow, but death will surely flow. "'In shades of darkness he will come to you. If you touch him, you will know life that might or death that will. "'Be therefore as sunlight, hidden in amber, untouched by man, not touching. "'Forbidden.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
~ Gene Wolfe
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
~ Neil Gaiman
THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his amber mane to conceal his missing ear. If
~ Armistead Maupin