Trunks Quotes - Page 8

• The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Lonely, Unseen, May

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere

  Cyril Clarke

  Wall, Years, Two

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  Sófocles

  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

  Lord Byron

  Risa, Vino, Hombres

  Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179

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• Me pasé toda la vida ayudando a mi madre a llevar sus baúles psíquicos como un botones amargado. Así que me quité un gran peso de encima cuando murió, y mi vida fue mucho más fácil.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Psychics, Helping

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• ... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Estrellas, Luna, Luz

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• Salieron de la estación antes de que Maia preguntara: "¿Había libros en el maletero?". Eran libros, admitió la Srta. Minton. Y Maia dijo: "Bien.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Book, Missing, Said

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “Journey to the River Sea”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rain, Tired, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

  Wallace Stegner

  Moving, Needs, Sides

  Wallace Stegner (1971). “Angle of Repose”, Penguin Group USA

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• As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.

  Janet Evanovich

  Boys, Breathing, Guy

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• Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Tree, Looks, Tire

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• El bosque se extendía aparentemente para siempre con la más monótona previsibilidad, cada árbol igual que el siguiente: tronco, ramas, hojas; tronco, ramas, hojas. Por supuesto, un árbol habría tenido una visión diferente del asunto. Todos tendemos a ver en qué se parecen los demás y en qué nos diferenciamos, y probablemente sea mejor que lo hagamos, ya que así evitamos muchas confusiones. Pero quizá deberíamos recordarnos de vez en cuando que nuestra visión es muy parcial y que el mundo está lleno de mucha más variedad de la que llegamos a abarcar.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Tomado, Vistas, Confusión

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• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Opposites, Roots

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Por el amor de Dios, Sirius, Dumbledore dijo que no". Un perro negro con aspecto de oso había aparecido al lado de Harry mientras éste trepaba por los diversos baúles que abarrotaban el vestíbulo para llegar hasta la señora Weasley. "Oh, de verdad", dijo la señora Weasley con desesperación. "¡Pues que te den por el culo!". El gran perro negro ladró alegremente y jugueteó alrededor de ellos, mordisqueando palomas y persiguiéndose la cola. Harry no pudo evitar reírse. Sirius había estado atrapado dentro durante mucho tiempo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perro, Largo, Reír

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• Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks—so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips—lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)

  Meg Cabot

  Hair, Water, Swim

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Tommy Sullivan is a Freak”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.670, Macmillan

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• Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Elephants

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• I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stars, Flower, Past

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). "Georgia O'Keeffe", Viking Pr

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• There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Skins, Junk

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• A cada paso que me alejaba de ella, el movimiento en mi corazón y entre mis piernas se hacía más definido: Me sentía como un ventrílocuo, encerrando a sus muñecos protestones en un baúl.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Dolls, Movement

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Age, Body

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• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.

  John Playfair

  Running, Nice, Hard Work

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). "Arte y Mentiras: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd", Knopf

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• El leñador lee la sabiduría de los siglos grabada en el papel que guarda su cena, y luego enciende su pipa con él. Cuando pedimos un trozo de papel para el uso más trivial, puede tener las confesiones de Agustín o los sonetos de Shakespeare, y no lo observamos. El estudiante enciende su fuego, el editor empaqueta su baúl, el deportista carga su arma, el viajero envuelve su cena, el irlandés empapela su chabola, el colegial pica el yeso, la bella se recoge el pelo, con los pensamientos impresos de los hombres.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• Me gustaría ir trepando por un abedul~ Y trepar por ramas negras por un tronco blanco como la nieve Hacia el cielo, hasta que el árbol no pudiera soportar más, Sino que sumergiera su copa y me dejara caer de nuevo. Eso sería bueno tanto para ir como para volver. Uno podría hacer algo peor que ser un escalador de abedules.

  Robert Frost

  Climbing, White, Snow

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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