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She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke. — A.S. Byatt

Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves. — John Muir

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. — Dinah Sheridan

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth - no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living. — John Steinbeck

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. — Stephen Fry

I sprinkled brown sugar onto my porridge and watched it melt into sickly golden pools. — Gill Lewis

The faint bruise on the side of her cheek had paled to a sickly yellow.
Imagine that. She'd fallen in the shower. Again.
Just ask Daddy. — Veronica Wolff

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked. — Len Wein

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he's doddering off to the grave. — Cassandra Clare

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home? — Ingrid Newkirk

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature. — Thomas Jefferson

And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death. — Augusten Burroughs

I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. — Margaret Atwood

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. — Rebecca West

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker ... I can be romantic, but not too sickly. — Louis Tomlinson

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. — Ernestine Rose

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. — Oscar Wilde

I fall off horses," he explained to Loghain with a sickly grin. "It's this thing I do. — David Gaider

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. — Aminatta Forna

I love being physical. It makes me feel like I sickly love the pain of it. — Meaghan Rath

It's like he's seeing the only thing that matters. I am sickly familiar with the way he looks at Olivia, because it is the way I look at him. — Tarryn Fisher

Everyone at health food stores and juice bars looked pale and sickly. Healthy-looking people ate at McDonald's. — Jason Starr

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. — Jane Austen

His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill. — John Updike

The band of sickly scarlet light that passed for sunset in Hell ringed the horizon like a migraine, — Liz Williams

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh. — Mark Twain

Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the — Lemony Snicket

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. — William Shakespeare

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong. — Dolph Lundgren

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus. — China Mieville

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union. — Gerhard Schroder

Presidents Trump's USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in. — Steven Magee

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Our age knows better ... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent - it is indecent to be a Christian today. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die. — Maurice Sendak

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. — Carl Jung

The coppery stink of blood combined with the sickly sweet smell of rotting leaves, and the result was not pleasant. — Graeme Reynolds

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees — Edward Young