Quotes About Ledge

In the brief silence, an antique clock ticked with a sound like stones falling off a ledge.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing.

The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper. "The same thing you were. I wanted to see what it was like. I wanted to imagine jumping off it. I wanted to leave all the shit behind. But when I did start to imagine it, I didn't like what it looked like. And then I saw you.

Don't move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds waiting to be spilled into the night. Let's shine awhile without touching. Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting.

but she knew that something had shifted inside her sister, that she was balanced on a dangerous, high-up ledge. She sat very still, as if one wrong move might top Lydia off the edge, and Lydia blew out the flames with one quick puff.

she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.

Who wants to go hunting?" Tsunami nearly shouted. "I know I do! Great idea, Tsunami! No arguing with the Head of School; off we go!" She shot off the ledge and whooshed away into the clouds. Carnelian snorted. "I guess that discussion is over," she said.

Carnelian unfolded her wings with a majestic scowl and flowed off the rock ledge like a wrathful waterfall.

Nobody who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

The cat was on the window ledge, gazing intently into the garden.

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

There was another twenty-foot descent after the ladder ended at the ledge, but it wasn't as smooth as the upper stretch, so Rafe could climb down.

I look at the knife- Resting in a puddle of water- Near the ledge by the pulpit behind Aaron- Where I dropped it- And I hear it calling to me- Take me, it says- Take me and use me, it says- Aaron hold open his arms. "Murder me," he says. "Become a man." Never let me go says the knife

paradox? It is that we can be a child sitting on a window ledge knowing everything and we can be the universe knowing the child at the same time.