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Quotes About Shade

In Arizona, shade trees are your best friends... and occasionally the basis of small civil wars over parking.
~ Terri Guillemets
I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.
~ Terri Guillemets
Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree.
~ Terri Guillemets
People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Potassium cyanide, says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Latet arbore opaca aureus et foliis et lento vimine ramus
~ Virgil
Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.
~ Virginia Woolf
Come and be worshiped, come and be caressed, 270  My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest My Admirable butterfly! Explain How could you, in the gloam of Lilac Lane, Have let uncouth, hysterical John Shade Blubber your face, and ear, and shoulder blade?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
This wonder was enhanced by my awareness of their not feeling what I felt, of their not seeing what I saw, of their taking Shade for granted, instead of drenching every nerve, so to speak, in the romance of his presence.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies that differ from one another only in shape and shade.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-
~ Larissa Ione
But this spirited little human had him by the balls, and some small part of him liked it. Hell's bells, as Shade would say, Hell's fucking bells.
~ Larissa Ione
The Vamp Council hung a portrait of me on their hero wall. How's that for ironic?' 'Especially since they showed it to you just before they tortured you for Serena's turning,' Shade said. Wraith snorted again. 'Fuckers'.
~ Larissa Ione
Buscar sombra siempre es doloroso. Pero permanecer ciegos es más doloroso aún.
~ Laura Gutman
white comforter. It was midafternoon, and the curtains were drawn, but a lamp in the corner had been left on, a towel draped over the shade to mute it, and the
~ Celeste Ng
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
~ Charles Dickens
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade
~ Charles Dickens
Nature forgot to shade him off, I think... A little too boisterous--like the sea. A little too vehement--like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him!
~ Charles Dickens
Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ladybird, Ladybird, whither fly you, To rest on the Rose or to sip of the Dew? Ladybird, Ladybird, come to my Bower; It will shade you from Sun and defend you from Shower.
~ Author unknown, 1800s
Mothers are the vital warmth of sun — and they are the comforting coolness of shade.
~ Terri Guillemets