Breathe Quotes - Page 38

• He just watched the way Finnikin’s hands rested on Evanjalin’s neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

  Melina Marchetta

  Kissing, Hands, Thumbs

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.231, Penguin UK

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• One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Men, Air

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2015

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• Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
 In the cradle a child is screaming.
 An old man sits over his death, and anyone
 young enough talks to his love, breathes 
into her lips, looks into her eyes.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Children, Sleep, Eye

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet

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• This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again

  Regina Spektor

  Love You, Heart, Blood

  Song: On The Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Thinking, Trying, Barns

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

  Elif Safak

  Children, Past, Ancestor

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• The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

  David Levithan

  Ability, Asthma, Loses

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

  Franz Kafka

  Common, Should, Corners

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.11, Franz Kafka

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies," Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. "My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can't lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn. And why I breathe alone.

  Kim Harrison

  Pain, Sky, Wings

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• Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

  Patricia Briggs

  Morning, Air, Path

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.54, Penguin

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• I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stars, Jars, Holes

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Long, Pieces

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

  Marie Lu

  Cheer, Home, June

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• I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Liars, Moving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.51, A&C Black

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• The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.

  Angelina Jolie

  Tired, Heart, Soul

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• you grab at any sign of hope. You grab it with both hands and breathe life into it, day after day. You do anything to keep it alive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Hands, Alive

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.

  Colm Toibin

  Heart, Simple, Clothes

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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• It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.

  Tana French

  Moving, Book, Feet

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• Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don’t have dragon wings, I don’t breathe fire, I’m only eight feet tall and I’ve never eaten a newborn that didn’t have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What’s yours?

  Derek Landy

  Feet, Fire, Eight

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• Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Able, Problem

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Letting Go, Reading, Book

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