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  • An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

    Notebook   Summer   Taken  
    FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 10, 2011
  • Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

    John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.
  • While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination.

    Eye   Color   Years  
  • There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

    Two   People   World  
    Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

  • Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  • Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  • Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

  • Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

    Men   Fog   Blue  
    Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
  • A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

    Summer   Autumn   Moon  
    Bai Juyi, “Song Of Sunset On The River”
  • No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

    Color   Doe   Tasks  
    Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library
  • The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

    Brother   Wall   Flower  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.981, Bantam
  • From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

    Beauty   Yellow   Orange  
    Pablo Neruda (1997). “Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda”, HarperCollins
  • My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

    Eye   Thinking   Glasses  
    "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1900.
  • Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

    Love Is   Balance   Gold  
    Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI
  • Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

    Spring   Rain   Land  
    Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press
  • I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

  • The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

    Boys   Years   Mind  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

    Emeralds   Green   Fields  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the emerald carpet, the warriors make war, and it is like a dance, almost beautiful, always macabre. The noise brings me back, the fearsome noise of swords striking swords, a metallic clanging that rings in my ears, echoing and echoing the fearsome din of men screaming and crying as they meet the sharp ends of blades.

    Beautiful   War   Men  
  • Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.74, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

    Children   Blow   Blood  
    Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education
  • The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  • This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

    Eye   Night   Orange  
    Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber
  • Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

    Color   Doe   Emeralds  
    Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

    Cities   Yellow   Bricks  
    TheWonderful Wizard of Oz ch. 2 (1900). The phrase "yellow brick road" does not appear in this book. See Harburg 6
  • My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

  • This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

    Spring   Fire   Flames  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics
  • I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire

    Eye   Fire   Emeralds  
  • And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

    Lakes   Views   Wind  
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