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Quotes About Shawl

I adore the sky wearing rainbow shawl of love for the birds so that they could fly free in warmth after the storm
~ Munia Khan
pliée dans un grand châle qui lui couvrait la tête et la poitrine et qu'elle tenait serré sur elle en croisant les bras.
~ Jean Giono
Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars.
~ Eoin Colfer
I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Galen stowed the goblets behind a curtain and walked up to twitch the hem of Rose's shawl. She gasped and looked around. "Hello," Galen said in a low voice. "Would you like to dance?" "So you're Pansy's good spirit?" "I am." "Your voice sounds familiar." Her eyes sparkled. "Could you pretend to snore, so that I could make sure?
~ Jessica Day George
She was making a shawl for the child. The knitting was so intricate that it looked like one of the wedding veils worn in his grandparents' day. Then, the women had said the yarn should be so fine that you should be able to pull the veil through a wedding ring.
~ Ann Cleeves
My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
~ Blaise Cendrars
She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with earth and all the other stars.
~ E.M. Forster
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
~ Aldous Huxley
It was a cold morning and the girl had a shawl thrown across her shoulders. Her feet were bare and her clothes were old but she was a young girl, walking gracefully and with dignity.
~ Ruskin Bond
The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.
~ Anne Michaels
I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.
~ Shirley Jackson
I am walking on their bodies, I thought, we are having lunch in the garden and Uncle Julian is wearing his shawl.
~ Shirley Jackson
Each of them used the same words, like people who've been trained in sales, and as they moved to their Miatas and Audis I noted the bare shoulders of their women were the barest shoulders I'd ever seen, as if they needed only the night as a shawl.
~ Stephen Dunn
His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.
~ Mary Shelley
Today at the Melchor market, a fantastical sight. A servant girl with a birdcage on her back, full of birds. She wore her blue shawl wrapped around the cage and tied in front to hold it. The willow cage must have been very light because she was not bent over, yet it towered over her head, with turrets like a Japanese pagoda. And full of birds: green and yellow, flapping about like dreams trying to escape from a skull.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
~ Blaise Cendrars
I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.
~ Jennie Garth
We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over me so you won't be afraid to sleep. I have already shown that space is God.
~ Susan Howe
I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.
~ Laini Taylor
He turned his eyes on me then, and spoke to me in a silken whisper that seemed to fall upon my grief like a comforting shawl.
~ Geraldine Brooks
She hung right out of the window and tugged at her shawl to show her purple hair. She tugged too violently, she jerked forward, she wobbled in her crazy red shoes – and then she fell.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
~ Charles Dickens
With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues with booted strides. He stumbles on the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom. Weak squeaks of laughter are heard, weaker.)_ THE BAWD: _(Her wolfeyes shining)_
~ James Joyce