Splinters Quotes - Page 4

• and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Blow, Moon, Shadow

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.578, Pan Macmillan

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• There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Tree, Giants, Proud

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Tree, Cannons

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

  Peter De Vries

  Riding, Pieces, Sticks

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