„She is everywhere and noplace
Like a breath or like a wind“

„But she is in the shadows,
the ocean and the sand
She is everywhere and noplace,
Her church not made with hands“

—  Mike Scott songwriter, musician 1958

"Church Not Made With Hands"
A Pagan Place (1984)
Контексте: She is everywhere and noplace
Like a breath or like a wind
she moves among men
They would seek to hold her as a prize
But she is in the shadows,
the ocean and the sand
She is everywhere and noplace,
Her church not made with handsUncontained by man.

„My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!“

—  Axel Munthe Swedish physician 1857 - 1949

„Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга City of Bones

Источник: City of Bones

„She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.“

—  Terry Pratchett, книга Equal Rites

Источник: Equal Rites

„She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.“

—  O. Henry American short story writer 1862 - 1910

Источник: The Complete Life of John Hopkins

„She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.“

—  Christine Feehan, книга Dark Prince

Источник: Dark Prince

„His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.“

—  Anne Brontë, книга The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Источник: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IV : The Party; Gilbert Markham about Frederick Lawrence

„As the wind and quarter-sea had mounted the Indomitable, big though she was, had seemed to bound from trough to trough like the lion she followed, sail and spindrift pouring from the bulging canvas like tropical rain.“

—  Douglas Reeman British author 1924 - 2017

For My Country's Freedom, Cap 6 "Cross of St George"

„Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.“

—  William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Источник: Much Ado About Nothing

„To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.“

—  Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

Источник: Flipped

„She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
Breathe or like her
Anymore.
Maybe tomorrow the tides
Will stop.
Maybe tomorrow will bring
No more rainbows.
Maybe tomorrow
She will stop
Asking useless questions.“

—  Gail Carson Levine, книга The Wish

Источник: The Wish

„Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.“

—  Arundhati Roy, книга The God of Small Things

Источник: The God of Small Things

„He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.“

—  Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Источник: A Memory of Light

„When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.“

—  Edward St. Aubyn British writer 1960

At Last, Chapter 8

„A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.“

—  Haruki Murakami, книга The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Источник: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

„She walked upon the grass,
Still quavering.
The winds were like her maids,
On timid feet,
Fetching her woven scarves,
Yet wavering.“

—  Wallace Stevens American poet 1879 - 1955

Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)

„And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.“

—  Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

Graceland
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

„Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.“

—  Robert Charles Wilson, книга Blind Lake

Источник: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 2 (p. 23)

„I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.“

—  Mark Haddon, книга The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Источник: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time