She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.
Quotes about pallid (8 Quotes)
Haie Haie These were the swift to harry These the keen-scented These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men.
There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his motherinlaw ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.
While Richards says he might not have written the song himself, Jagger felt strongly about it. I find politics a pretty pallid subject for songs in general, ... I've only done it a few times, like in 'Street Fighting Man' or 'Sweet Black Angel.'
Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes And dim approach But brave at last with Bugles