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Quotes About Softly

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.
~ James Russell Lowell
She laughed softly, wrapping up him up in her love. We asked for wolves, remember? I think the old adage be careful what you wish for might apply here.
~ Christine Feehan
considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a Jiki-ketsu-gaki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Cats love to sleep softly.
~ Theocritus
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
~ Nietzsche
Through the open window the voice of the beauty of the world came murmuring, too softly to hear exactly what it said — but what mattered if the meaning were plain?
~ Virginia Woolf
How softly runs the afternoon Beneath the billowy clouds of June!
~ Charles Hanson Towne
A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
~ James Joyce
the strands fell through his fingers. "I have to go," he said softly.
~ James Patterson
In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The skiff swung gently, drifting in the current. He undid his shirt to the waist and put one forearm to his eyes. He could hear the river talking softly beneath him, heavy old river with wrinkled face
~ Cormac McCarthy
What is it? she pleaded softly. He lay perfectly still, only his eyes alive, and they full of torment. You know, he said at length, rather wearily, you know - we'd better break off. I was what she dreaded. Swiftly, everything seemed to darken before her eyes.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red...
~ Susan Coolidge, "Angelus"
I didn't start the war, Kiernan." "But we're on opposite sides." "So fight me!" he warned her softly.
~ Heather Graham
Lonely Day I saw your dress sway with the breeze at the end of a lonely day. I saw your dress sway, drying on a hanger, play, dance with summer ease. Softly, I saw your dress sway and wished I were the breeze.
~ Pat Mora
You wouldn't love a brand-new ship ? I don't know … a lot of memories onboard the Goya. Rachel smiled softly. Well, as my mom used to say, sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
~ Dan Brown
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
~ Catherine the Great
In my dream, I have hands," Walter repeated softly under his breath.
~ Christa Faust
Swordtail growled softly. "Dragons as decoration.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.
~ Paulo Coelho
There were various coffees with cheese—cheese dunked in a cup of hot coffee and later eaten when the mixture softly congealed.
~ Dave Eggers
Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him.
~ Holly Black
How are you?" he asked softly. "Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours." His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down.
~ Holly Black