Half Moon Quotes

• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

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  Joaquin Miller

  Wall   Moon   Purple  

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• He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man's name was Albus Dumbledore.

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  J. K. Rowling

  Eye   Moon   Men  

  280

• Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

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  Tom Hanks

  Growing Up   Thinking   Moon  

  1216

• The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

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  William C. Bryant

  Summer   Moon   Night  

  3692

• Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

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  J. K. Rowling

  Moon   Glasses   Hands  

  J. K. Rowling (2004). “Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa”, Bloomsbury Children

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• The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

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  Vinnie Paz

  Moon   Rivers   Half  

  4069

• Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

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  Arundhati Roy

  Team   Eye   Moon  

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.3, Penguin Books India

  1928

• I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

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  J. K. Rowling

  Moon   Thinking   Worry  

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