Breathing Quotes - Page 10

• Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

  Robert Jordan

  Reading, Firsts, Violent

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• He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Mind, Puff

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• People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Crush, Heart, Fire

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Blood Noir”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.

  Melina Marchetta

  Baby, Stupid, Sleep

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• Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

  Markus Zusak

  Husband, Moving, Keys

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• I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

  Donna VanLiere

  Determined, Calm, Incompetence

  Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.213, Macmillan

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• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Heart, Light

  'The Bride of Abydos' (1813) canto 1, st. 6

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• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Blind Spots

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• Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

  David Levithan

  Running, Children, Worry

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

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• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

  Jill Shalvis

  Found You, Said, Five

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.108, Harlequin

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• “Run,” he whispered. “Run.” “No, Rand,” I said, brushing the dirt from his face. “I’m tired of running.” “Forgive me, please.” He clutched my hand as his eyes beseeched me through tears of pain. “You’re forgiven.” He sighed once, then stopped breathing. The shine in his brown eyes dulled. I pulled his hood over his head.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Running, Pain, Tired

  "Poison Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, October 2005.

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• The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Heart, Breathing Space, Hands

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Army, Fire

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• Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Heart, Past

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• The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life Changing, Evil, Worry

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.244, Thomas Nelson

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• Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Simple, Two

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• How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

  Richard Bach

  Fall, Deer, Forests

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• They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Gold, Blame, Be Good

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Memories, Fall

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• You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

  Charles Dickens

  Wife, Missing, Might

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

  Thomas Harris

  Half, Faust, Mephistopheles

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• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  Mark Steyn

  Taken, Past, Museums

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Balance, Weakness

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

  David Baldacci

  Alive, Want, Should

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