alabaster QUOTES

1 " God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. "

― Vance Havner

2 " two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws "

― William S. Burroughs

3 " I don't like forgetting, Elías," I said with my eyes closed. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I let it. " I don't want to forget these moments that constantly remind me of who I am, who I was, and who you are. I don't want to forget my past and all the things about this world that's brought me here. With you." " So then why do you try?" he asked, his gaze searching my face. " Be here with me, T. Exist with me, because there isn't any other way I'd love you more." " I-I don't belong to you." " Bullshit. You've belonged to me since that night on the alabaster hill. I had you then, and I swore to keep you." " You-" " Just stop." Eli placed a finger to my lips as he held me closely and slid a hand down my back. He palmed my shoulder and the place where a piece of him would forever harbor. " Stop making up excuses. Stop hiding. Stop running from me. You're the light at the end of my tunnel, my saving grace, and you don't even know it, Trinity. "

4 " And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seeds
for the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the jazzman will send us a rose. "

― Kristen Henderson , Drum Machine

5 " The alien reached out her hands to hold Alex’s tightly. “Please. Some of what I want to express, it may be difficult to locate the right words.”

“Of course.”

Pure alabaster eyes stared back at her. “Child, there is a hole in your mind. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Dissonance (Aurora Renegades #2; Amaranthe #5)

6 " She walked among the stars,The princess of the heavens,Looking for the one who caught her crystal tearsThat spilled out from liquid ice blue eyes-Rolling down pale cheeks-Then sealed up tenderly...In pearl alabaster jars... "

7 " Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' " What?" Rufus objected. " That's stupid. I'm not saying that." " Do you have some better suggestion?" " Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties? "

8 " I had a dream about you. You was a crocodile and i was always looking for you with fear. Your teeth were alabaster and your skin green as grass. Unfortunate you had already a girlfriend. And i hoped she finish like a handbag. I love you from my all reptile heart, which is poikilothermic. "

― Kattie Belgar, , Dreaming is for lovers

9 " After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers. "

10 " 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! "

11 " More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout. "