Breathe Quotes - Page 34

• After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.

  Jean Rhys

  Light, Air, Blue

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• In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

  William Golding

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

  Patrick Ness

  Hands, Say Anything, Want

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Elephants, Underwater

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• There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Alive, Earth

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Spring, Gun

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• I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.

  Kami Garcia

  Needed

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Summer, World

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.

  Mira Grant

  Dream, Thinking, Ponds

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• ...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

  Neal Shusterman

  Country, Tired, Giving

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• "Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

  Laini Taylor

  Love Is, Air, Luxury

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• (He went to Tory and with one more push, his son slid into his hands. For a full minute, he couldn’t breathe as he stared at the tiniest, most perfect creature he’d ever seen in his life.) “Is it a smurf?” - Tory

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Hands, Perfect

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.412, Macmillan

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• I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.” -In the yellow time of pollen

  Luke Davies

  Yellow, Snow, Water

  Luke Davies, “Totem (I)”

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• She asked me what was wrong, and I told her I had to end it. She was surprised, and asked my why I thought so. I told her it wasn't a thought, more a feeling, like I couldn't breathe and knew I had to get some air. It was a survival instinct, I told her. She said it was time for dinner. Then she sat me down and told me not to worry. She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, your'e disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem.

  David Levithan

  Night, Air, Realize Things

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• We live and breathe words.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Hurt, Moving, Shifting

  Suzanne Brockmann (2008). “Into the Fire: A Novel”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.

  Abbi Glines

  Might

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• Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.

  Nora Roberts

  Dark, Night, Men

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb THE IN DEATH COLLECTION”, p.47, Penguin

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• It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wonder, Choke, Mockingjay Book

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1003, Scholastic Inc.

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• I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Book, Feet

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.

  Lynn Austin

  Ocean, Air, Forever

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Cousin, Brother

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• I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Eye, Hands, Years

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• He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wants to lie down on the bed with her and have her curl into him. He wants to hold her as she breathes softly through the night; to see her as no one else sees her: vulnerable and asleep. To see her and to be seen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Lying, Night

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