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• This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

  Anais Nin

  Yield, Air, Sun

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• I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

  Sara Gruen

  Lying, Feelings, Skins

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• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Air, Hands

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

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• She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Dark, Smell

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.14, Vintage

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• But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager

  Edward Eager

  Children, Garden, Air

  Edward Eager (2001). “The Time Garden”, p.171, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Book, Fighting

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Years, Doubt

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• Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fire, Dragons, Oxygen

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• Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sleep, Car, Purpose

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• You, God, who live next door - If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking - this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom. I know you're all alone in that room. If you should be thirsty, there's no one to get you a glass of water. I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign! I'm right here... Sen komşu tanrı, Uzun geceler bazen, Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır... Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda. Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok, Bir yudum su versin aradığında. Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin, Öyle yakınım sana.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Glasses, Doors

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• How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.

  Nora Roberts

  Stupid, Love You, Eye

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.1172, Penguin

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• I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.

  Kim Harrison

  Cat, Eye, Fire

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• There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Eye, Looks, Breathless

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.19, Macmillan

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• I have you here. Why shouldn’t I be pleased? (Stryker) I can think of a million reasons, starting with the fact that I want to kill you more than I want to breathe. As for the others, would you prefer them in order of importance or alphabetically? (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Order, Want

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.125, Macmillan

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• It’s just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I’d be fine. (Aimee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Breathing, Papa, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I'm thinking I would like to dance in the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in the dark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he's dreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren't about me.

  Rachel Cohn

  Dream, Lying, Rain

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Nudge Nudge, Mouths

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• It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Eye, Names

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• By the way, don’t breathe on the upholstery or I may have to gut you. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  May, Way, Upholstery

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.124, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Don’t move, and breathe only if you have to. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving, Caleb, Ifs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.252, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

  Khaled Hosseini

  Another Day, Grants, Breaths

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.22, A&C Black

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