Choke Quotes - Page 9

• When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

  Emile Zola

  Blow, Criminal Mind, Truth Is

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• If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Lying, Islands

  "God & Churchill: An Interview with Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley". www.biblegateway.com. October 7, 2015.

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• Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.

  Stefan Themerson

  Weed, Association, Path

  Stefan Themerson (1997). “Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo”

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• When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.97, Random House

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• If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

  J.R. Ward

  Morning, Angel, Caring

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.18, Penguin

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• Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

  Stephen King

  Real

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sound, Noise, Ghost

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• Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Curiosity, Bagels, Immortal

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, L. A. Banks, Susan Squires, Ronda Thompson (2006). “Love at First Bite”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Thinking, Two

  Julia Quinn (2015). “The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Smart, Ambition

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.257, Random House

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• He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine. Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.

  Jennifer Estep

  Liars, Mean, Men

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Flames, Evil

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• Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Heart, Men

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes--sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier." I choke, my eyes flooding all over again. "I'm not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it

  Alyson Noel

  Eye, Loss, Thinking

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.

  Bill Bryson

  Children, Confused, Views

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• I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reality, Sometimes, Submission

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “Friday Harbor Series Books 1-4: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, Rainshadow Road, Dream Lake, and Crystal Cove”, p.622, Macmillan

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• What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.

  Douglas Adams

  Confused, Men, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, "Let go of Frosty's leash. You're choking the life out of him." Her eyes narrowed to tiny slits, a sure sign of her aggression. "He deserves to choke. He didn't keep little frosty in his pants this summer." The words snapped like a whip. "He did." Cole snapped back with unwavering confidence. "Not." "Did." "Not!" "Did,"... "Not, not, not!" she shouted with a stomp of her foot. "What are we five?" Cole said. "Six."

  Gena Showalter

  Summer, Letting Go, Eye

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.

  Rachel Vincent

  Testosterone, Kaylee, Melodrama

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.138, Harlequin

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• Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

  David Levithan

  Jesus, Listening, Sin

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.

  Maya Banks

  Mother, Regret, Eye

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• Funny isn’t it?” said Sebastian. “The lies good people tell. He’ll probably make you eggs every day for the rest of your life now, and you’ll choke them down because you can’t tell him you don’t like them.” Clary thought of the Seelie Queen. “Love makes liars of us all?

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Liars, Lying

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2043, Simon and Schuster

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• If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mouths, Lions, Flesh

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.392, Macmillan

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• It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• On a given day, Serena Williams could beat some players. I believe because she's so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke 'cause she's been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit - the men's circuit - that would be an entirely different story.

  John McEnroe

  Strong, Believe, Player

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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