Quotes About Lines

It was as though they had never known love: both terrible and wonderful. She had considered them before, the people who did not know Friday. She wondered now if this was how Ronit felt in New York, without lines and demarcations, without order and sense, without anchor. A thing both to be feared and desired.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

In the books inked by scribes, words ran together without any break across every line on every page, in what's now referred to as scriptura continua.

By the 19th century, a stereotyped lexicon of alterity had come into being that included twisting, melismatic melodic lines and non-standard scales often featuring augmented seconds:

He's got a brave heart," Savannah said. "And those feathers are sexy." "You think anything that is breathing is sexy," I said. "Breathing is sexy. Dead things are awful hard to have a good time with," Savannah said. The sad part was she wasn't joking. No sexual act was too perverse or outlandish for her to consider. I hoped she drew the line well before necrophilia, but I also knew her lines were drawn with chalk.

Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to the silence.

At the back of the house, dogs imprisoned in small yards ran in circles. Telephone cables, electric wires, and clothes lines crossed and recrossed, giving the houses, light poles, and leafless trees the quality of a contour drawing, one continuous line.

The surrender in it seemed to have cut new lines around his brown eyes.