Quotes About Softly

But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al's smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.

Is it a toy? asked Button-Bright softly. No, dear, answered Dorothy; it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince.

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

Like a nocturnal flower there in the shadow I shall softly open for you.

Henry Worrall, at your service," he said, embarrassed. "Not much to look at here, sir." "Just a hero," Jackson said softly, and this time Henry couldn't argue.

If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb, Softly, softly, catchee monkey ; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.

Good morning, Mrs. Hudson," I called out softly, figuring that Holmes was still asleep. He often was in the mornings, as he kept odd hours—sleep was a concern of the body and of convenience, he declared, not of the clock.

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even without my knowledge. But it is here. While I was despairing, thinking everything lost, it was already quietly growing. I had thought that division was always an end. Now I know that growth also is division. And growth means relinquishing. And growth has no end.

He Said... Your garden at dusk Is the soul of love Blurred in its beauty And softly caressing; I, gently daring This sweetest confessing, Say your garden at dusk Is your soul, My Love.

What was in the bags?" she asked softly. "Florida mud," he answered. That was one of two true things I told you.

I closed the door softly behind him and then stood leaning against it as if I could hold the future out.

He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.

He leaned over the dying man and whispered in his ear, 'I am—' And his lips uttered a name so softly that he himself seemed to be afraid to hear it.

Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

off, but Osgood, the photographer, was already snoring softly. He was in the center seat, wedged between John Thigpen and

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.

But a spirit who is sure of himself speaks softly; he seeks secrecy, he lets himself be awaited.

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

I want to brush my teeth," she said. Before she knew what was happening, Thatcher leaned over and kissed her. Very quickly, very softly. "You're fine," he said. "I detect a trace of vinaigrette, but it's really very pleasant." He held the flute out to her, and as it gave her something to do other than fall over backward, she accepted it.

His voice, softly cultured as ever, showed little of the emotional strain until he dropped his hands to his side and swore.