Tongue Quotes - Page 16

• I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes...” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Stars, Angel, Kissing

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Tempt Me At Twilight: Number 3 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so powerful, so overwhelming as to surpass the capacity of the human tongue to express adequately. He gave His life to break the bonds of death. His Atonement made fully active the plan of happiness of His Father in Heaven.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Powerful, Father

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• Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half the words are missing.” “Half?” “Well, some,” she amended. “But truly, that’s not the problem.” He blinked, waiting for her to continue. She did. Of course. “I don’t think Italian is the author’s native tongue,” she said. “The author of the dictionary?” he queried. “Yes. It’s not terribly idiomatic.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Italian, Waiting

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Romeo And Juliet Play

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.70

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• How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. “Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.

  Rick Riordan

  Tattoo, Blue, Order

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

  Rex Stout

  Body, Submit

  Rex Stout (2010). “Too Many Cooks”, p.79, Bantam

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• What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

  Jack Vance

  Phrases, Use, Answers

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.

  Homer

  Men, Weapons, Sides

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• Good Lord, woman. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don’t stop talking, my tongue will explode? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Talking, Each Day

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• What are you?” She demanded. “My dad? Osiris? Are you even alive?” Dad looked at Anubis. “What did I tell you about her? Fiercer than Ammit, I said.” “You didn’t need to tell me that.” Anubis’s face was grave. “I’ve learned to fear that sharp tongue.” Sadie looked outraged. “Excuse me?

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Osiris, Anubis

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• Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Arrows, Three, Bows

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• She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

  Djuna Barnes

  Sweet, Thinking, Wicked

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Kissing, Past, Firsts

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• Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

  Amy Tan

  Memories, Heart, Noses

  Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr

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• Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Distance, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.195, Scholastic UK

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• Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like that!" "Hunger," said Jem. "Were you think about blood?" "No." "Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired. "No!" "No one would blame you," said Jem. "He's very annoying.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Blood, Ordinary

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• Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

  J. K. Rowling

  Flames, Steel, Frozen

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• Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me. It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue.

  Janet Evanovich

  Kissing, Shirts, Knows

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• I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Fun, Kissing

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• I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

  Meg Cabot

  Good Night, Mean, Past

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• Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Years, Ice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mother, Tree, Saws

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Maybe This Time”, p.4, Macmillan

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• The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Iron, Bed

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [372]

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• Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth.

  Markus Zusak

  Home, Sky, Ashes

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.13, RH Childrens Books

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