Grey Skies Quotes

• My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

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  Tracy Chevalier

  Father   Winter   Ice  

  Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

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• The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

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  George R. R. Martin

  Dark   Sky   White  

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• Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

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  Shane Koyczan

  Dark   Clouds   Sky  

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• You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds   Eccentric   Blame  

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

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  Shane Koyczan

  Moon   Clouds   Light  

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• Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

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  Stanley Donwood

  Growing Up   Sarcasm   Sky  

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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