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Quotes About Faintly

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.
~ Munia Khan
Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.
~ Jennifer Egan
I ain't seen you in Junto's before, baby,' said Boots Smith. 'I don't go there very often,' she said. There was something faintly contemptuous about the way he said 'baby.' He made it sound like 'bebe,' and it slipped casually, easily, out of his mouth as though it were his own handy, one-word index of women.
~ Ann Petry
Des heard the dogs. They weren't barking, he realized, not exactly. They were swearing. And the rooftop rottweilers, faintly and almost plaintively, at this distance, were swearing back: 'FUCKOFF!' yelled Joe, or Jeff. It was almost a monosyllable. 'FUCKOFF!' 'FUCK! FUCK!' 'FUCKOFF!' 'FUCKOFF!' yelled Jeff, or Joe. 'FUCKOFF!' 'FUCK! FUCK!' 'FUCKOFF!
~ Martin Amis
Now and then when some dog set up a howl in the back, one or the other of the cats would appear to smile faintly.
~ Sue Grafton
Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be.
~ Susan Cooper
As a species, we have become a population of refugees, longing for homes we remember only faintly, as we remember dreams.
~ Freeman House
the recognition that human language has limits, that people choose concepts that correspond only faintly to things in the real world, like the shadows of ghosts.
~ James Gleick
His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
~ James Joyce
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
~ James Joyce
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly throughout the universe and faintly falling, like the decent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
~ James Joyce
The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Woe doth the heavier sit where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
~ William Shakespeare
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
~ John Dryden
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.
~ Francis Atterbury
The girl turned to him and to his surprise, she smiled faintly. 'She's beautiful'.
~ Miyuki Miyabe