#gray

Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand — and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.” “You fear for Jem,” Will said. “Yes,” she said. “And I fear for you, too.” “No,” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #story

A dragon just gave me a piece of jewelry,” she said. She took another swig and handed the bottle back to Graydon. “Have I been added to his hoard?” He shook his head and drank too. “No, cupcake,” he said. “I’m pretty sure you’ve replaced it. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#pia #romance #race

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#black #close #good #gray #i

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#clear #cold #fort #fox #gray

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ↗

— John Mahoney

#dreary #everything #first #gray #i

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#bloody #brothers #ever #ever after #fairy

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#gray #gray area #i #satisfied

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't. ↗

— Kim Novak

#already #break #caught #deception #desperately

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#away #bright #gone #gray #i

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. ↗

— Christian Dior

#pale #pink #prevail #tones #turquoise