I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
There were some memories, though, that never faded.
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.
I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.
For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.
All that I've learned has faded away.
I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
