Sky Quotes

The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

~ Helen Hodgman

Camba had bent her long neck down to Ingar's level and was muttering in his ear. Do you feel the breeze on your face? I heard her say. That's yours, and worth feeling. Look at those orange clouds. All the trials of a day may be endured if you know there's such a sky at the end of it. Some days I told my heart to wait, just wait, because the sunset would teach me again that my pain was nothing compared with the eternal, circling sky.

~ Rachel Hartman

I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent of seawater that sprayed into my face when I first dove into the ocean. That initial scent was much more subtle than the ocean's heavy, fishy aroma; it was a whiff of salt and mint, just as I approached the water on a dive, that warned me that a more powerful scent would soon enter my nose. It was the scent I dreamed in. And it was the scent of that spring sky as I stood in my yard.

~ Anne Spollen

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.

~ Victor Hugo

We'd be trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realize that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

~ Brian Doyle

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

~ Kendall Kulper

...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

~ John Geddes

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

~ Terry Pratchett

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

~ Pema Chödrön

I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.

~ Colleen Hoover

Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.

~ Colleen Hoover

I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.

~ Colleen Hoover

You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms.

~ Colleen Hoover

I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.

~ Jess Rothenberg

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.

~ Joss Stirling

Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.

~ Joss Stirling

I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.

~ Shannon Hale

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

~ Scott Fortino

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

~ Colleen Hoover

If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.

~ Laura Davenport

So, Zed, isn’t this a killer outfit?”“Certainly a killer, baby.”“Good, because I’ve bought another five just like it.”“You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I’m gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.

~ Joss Stirling

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

~ Virginia Woolf

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

~ Roberto Bolaño

What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?

~ Joss Stirling

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

~ Joss Stirling

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

~ Jeanne Duprau

I like this day, I like that sky of steel, I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.

~ Hillary Frank

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

~ Willa Cather

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

~ Carl Sagan

I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

~ Markus Zusak

My mouth opened.It happened.Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling.Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.

~ Markus Zusak

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.

~ Joë Bousquet

We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.

~ Sorin Cerin

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

~ Mia Kirshner