Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
Tove Jansson
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper. CLARA KENSIE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS In mid-stroke of word and paper fusion JAZZ FEYLYNN We were charged $150 for putting a piece of tissue paper in a carton. BILL CHAPMAN I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. PATRICK DENNIS Last year, the third grade did a big paper-making project during the recycling unit. Williams Colleg... JENNIFER SWOAP There is one fabric made of paper yarn -- that's a paper and cotton mix. So it's a bit like taking l... GRAHAM FRASER She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We give ourselves limits on everything but paper. Paper coming in, it never stops. Everybody in the ... DENIECE SCHOFIELD I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and a... CORMAC MCCARTHY It's a piece of paper, but it's a piece of paper that has meaning and value, just like a marriage ce... LEONARD DAVIS There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of pap... LEMONY SNICKET I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United Stat... VIDA BLUE Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But publ... MURRAY ROTHBARD Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a... NEIL GAIMAN The best memory you will every have is a pen and a piece of paper MICHAEL CHAD BUTCHER God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me... ALVAR AALTO His skin is as thin as tissue paper. He was born without a specific collagen. DAPHNE MAYHEW The surviving paper, even in a one-paper town, still is faced with a boatload of competition, BILL MITCHELL I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mi... TAMARA MELLON I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees... HENRY ROLLINS Dr. Cherry handed over boxes and boxes of information on his grandfather; little snippets of paper, ... BILL CASEY I could cut a star out of paper and drop it. DIANA WYNNE JONES It encapsulates the contaminant but stays within the paper and comes out with the paper thus ... GRAHAM WHITELEY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI A raw chicken, covered in wrapping paper... from this fan who always insisted on giving us food MATT GOSS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It would be a bookkeeping nightmare to do this on paper and pencil every month. JASON SORENSON You keep sending out these little paper boats, and hope that someday one will come back laden with g... GLEN HANSARD We cleaned every block, every piece of paper. CAROLYN KOOS Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will m... VIGNESH S.V. I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip. AVA DUVERNAY I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put ... DALLAS ROBERTS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Every single allegation in this suit is provable with a paper trail a mile wide and a foot deep, GEORGE PATAKI A piece of blank paper is always a place of good intentions. ANTHONY T.HINCKS My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it... DIRK BENEDICT The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. MALCOLM GLADWELL That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. WILLIAM STERRETT O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the wor... MURRAY ROTHBARD The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. BEN HECHT He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, l... ANGELA CARTER I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa... SIMON VAN BOOY We're beginning with a blank sheet of paper. BOB BARRETT Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys." Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To... SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they? SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back. SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe... SARAH J. MAAS If I get a piece of paper, all I see is a piece of paper. With an electronic document, there's poten... DENNIS M. KENNEDY A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability o... WILLIAM S. COHEN And they came in with a paper and saying I had to leave. ADAM BLANTON You were like a blank piece of paper, sitting there; lonely, empty, lifeless, and soulless. Until li... ROSA M. BETANCES I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien sme... BEN KATCHOR Love is like a forest, I think as I kill trees by squandering toilet paper while “decorating” my... JAROD KINTZ If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD On paper, we have the ability to be a top-three defense. That's on paper. Now we have to go out and ... ADEWALE OGUNLEYE Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the fin... EDWARD STEICHEN My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my br... JOHN PAUL DEJORIA I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typew... SHELBY FOOTE Everything on paper says they're the best team in New Jersey, but you don't play the games on paper. AUDRA CORSON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each squa... KURT VONNEGUT I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones. THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake And the sun is coming through, Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet... THE PAPER KITES Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science de... JORDAN D. PAPER All Money is although a mere piece of Paper indeed, But this Paper has NO WASTES as such to recyle i... ASHISH SOPHAT We have been in a state of shock ... and lost everything we had -- the electronic and paper photo ar... IRINA GEVORKYAN The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions -... TED NELSON Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month us... JOY REDDING
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