Tendrils Quotes

Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away — Harriet Jacobs

There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils. — Lisa Graff

Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love. — Rick Gekoski

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm. — Jean Houston

Strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day ... — John Geddes

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run. — Caroline Hanson

Rage is a powerful emotion, strong enough not just to burn away pain but also to sear back the whispering tendrils of fear. — Carrie Ryan

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet. — Robin Sloan

sinookas, the tendrils of my life, — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate. — C.L. Wilson

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. — Judith Guest

Been united by superficial tendrils of the small and the mundane, but the enormous fact of your death was ripping each fragile connection. I said — Rosamund Lupton

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. — Patricia Highsmith

Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it. — Jonathan Carroll

Stay with me. As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it. — Suzanne Collins

The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils. — Lauren Oliver

That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support. — Alexander MacLaren

Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands. — Michael Chabon

The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth. — Federico Garcia Lorca

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. — Cassandra Clare