Fists Quotes - Page 6

• When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Boys, Faces

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• Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.

  James Patterson

  Sleep, Tree, Bed

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• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Boxing, Devil, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.272, Macmillan

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• I glanced up at Zay, then walked over to stand next to him. "You look good with a baby in your arms," he murmured. I took his hand, careful with his fingers that were still wrapped in tape. "Don't get your hopes up, Jones. I'm not the settling-down type." "Want to bet on that?" he asked. "Sure." I made a fist; so did he. We pumped three times. I threw paper. Zayvion threw scissors. I'd lost. Startled, I looked up at him. "Two out of three?" Zay grinned. So did I.

  Devon Monk

  Baby, Hands, Two

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• I . . . hit him . . . elsewhere.” “Where?” “In his . . .In his inguine.” “Oh, dear God.” It was unclear whether Ralston’s words were meant as prayer or blasphemy. What was clear was that the woman was a gladiator. “He called me a pie!” she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.” “A tart?” “Yes! That’s it!” She registered her brother’s fists and looked to Simon. “I see that it is not a compliment.” “No. It is not.

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Prayer, Pie

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• [Rhage and Manny] “You’re doing great,” he murmured as he noticed those white knuckled fists. “Don’t worry about me.” “Right, right…your brothers.” Manny paused for a split second. “You’re all right, you know that.” “F*ck…that…” The fighter smiled, flashing fangs. “I’m…perfect.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, White, Perfect

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• This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Echoes, Self, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

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• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• Heat flushed Chauncey's neck; it took all his energy to curl his hands into two weak fists. He laughed at himself, but there was no humor. He had no idea how, but the boy was inflicting the nausea and weakness inside him. It would not lift until he took the oath. He would say what he had to, but he swore in his heart he would destroy the boy for this humiliation.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Boys, Ideas

  Kate Brian, Jessica Verday, Richard Yancey, Scott Westerfeld, Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “All Good Things Come to an End: Free Teen eSampler”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .

  Khaled Hosseini

  Goodbye, Tired, Heart

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• Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. “Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. “Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.

  Veronica Roth

  Dirty, Eye, Laughing

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• You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

  Holly Black

  Pain, Agents, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Skulls

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• We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

  Jewel

  Fighting, Desire, Needs

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• Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.

  L.A. Meyer

  Girl, Wall, Evil

  L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Men, Want

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.153, Penguin

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• What about me?” Frances asked. “The butler,” Harriet replied without even a second of hesitation. Frances’s mouth immediately opened to protest. “No, no,” Harriet said. “It’s the best role, I promise. You get to do everything.” “Except be a unicorn,” Daniel murmured. Frances tilted her head to the side with a resigned expression. “The next play,” Harriet finally gave in. “I shall find a way to include a unicorn in the one I’m working on right now.” Frances pumped both fists in the air. “Huzzah!

  Julia Quinn

  Air, Expression, Play

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• But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

  Gayle Forman

  Letting Go, Hands, Years

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.94, Penguin

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• "He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."

  Rachel Vincent

  Lying, Might, Sides

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Play, People

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• The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

  Karen White

  Hammers, Able, Wreckage

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.238, Penguin

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• Weird. I rang it three times.” – Nekoda “There might be something with out condo.” ‘Other than the fact that it lived under a perpetual dismal cloud and was infested with roaches the size of his fist. It was probably over a hellmouth, too, that didn’t allot for any kind of reception other than two cans joined by a length string.’ – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clouds, Two, Three

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• I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hands, Necks, Wrapping

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Poison Study”, p.306, MIRA

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• My chest expanded and I suddenly wanted to beat on it with my fist. The girl was making me go all caveman." -Marcus Hardy

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Beats, Hardy

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• Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Done, Palms

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.798, Macmillan

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