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Quotes About Topaz

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
~ Dodie Smith
Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to Venus, will call a man to you, and black tourmaline will eliminate jealousy.
~ Alice Hoffman
What treasures they left behind! A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix. A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain. A violet column of tourmaline from Madagascar that looks so rich he cannot resist the urge to stroke it. Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name.
~ Anthony Doerr
My character is Toni Topaz, and she's from the new-generation Archie Comics. I will be rocking the signature pink hair.
~ Vanessa Morgan
The jawbone-I have a topaz pin for that. The wrist and skin-sapphire. I keep the diamonds for your eyes, my beautiful. But blindness is not yet. Nor death. This shall be a long game. Revel in it, my dear.
~ Tanith Lee
Is there anything in the legends about a topaz called the Wolf Diamond? A large yellow gem maybe?" I asked. Dali wrinkled her forehead. "Topaz is associated with Brihaspati—Jupiter." "The Roman god?" Jim frowned. "No, the planet. Honestly, Jim, the world doesn't revolve around the Greco-Roman pantheon.
~ Ilona Andrews
The sun is touching every door and making wonder of the wheat. The first wine is pink in colour, is sweet with the sweetness of a child, the second wine is able-bodied, strong like the voice of a sailor, the third wine is a topaz, is a poppy and a fire in one. My house has both the sea and the earth, my woman has great eyes the colour of wild hazelnut, when night comes down, the sea puts on a dress of white and green...
~ Pablo Neruda
Whenever you touch topaz, it touches you. It awakens a gentle fire, like wine awakens in grapes. Still unborn, clear wine seeks channels amidst stone, demands words, bestows its secret nourishment, shares out the kiss of human skin. The touch of stone and man in serene peace kindles garlands of fleeting flowers, which then return to prime sources: flesh and stone: contrary elements. (Translation, Beatriz von Eidlitz)
~ Pablo Neruda
And may sapphires, amethysts and emeralds spill into the dark eroticism of abundant life: because in my darkness quakes at last the great topaz. I am now listening to a sylvan music, almost just drumming and rhythm that comes from a neighboring house where young junkies live the present. Another instant of incessant, incessant rhythm, and something terrible happens to me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don't get their way.:
~ Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair
And mount on it a setting of gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
~ Exodus 28:17
Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
~ Job 28:19