Quotes for All
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. Erica Jong
He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water. Elizabeth Chandler
Every saint has a bee in his halo. E. V. Lucas
I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: \”I love you,\” and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then…well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the … Read more
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts. E. L. Konigsburg
A ring is a halo on your finger. Douglas Coupland
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them. Donald Dunn
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it. Carl got that brooding look again. People forget that robes were street clothes once… and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the … Read more
I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations…Hope was what you had when … Read more
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. Dean Koontz