Fists Quotes - Page 8

• His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• --I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

  David James Duncan

  Crush, Letting Go, Believe

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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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• She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very carefully he pressed a kiss into the exact center of her palm. 'Savannah? Were you trying to hit me?' 'I didn't hit you--twice, you scum. You didn't even notice the first time.' She sounded very irritated with him. For some reason it made him want to smile. 'I apologize, mon amour. Next time, I promise I will notice when you strike me.' The hard edge to his mouth softened into a semblance of a smile. 'I will even go so far as to pretend that it hurts, if you wish it.

  Christine Feehan

  Hurt, Kissing, Hands

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• You are beyond frustrating," she grumbled. "Why can't you do what I ask you to do without issuing a million questions first?" "I could say the same of you." "I don't--Argh." She raised a fist at him. "So maybe I do ask a lot of questions. So what. Anyone in my position would do the same. Besides, I'm a girl and that's my job. You're a boy. You're supposed to pound your chest with your fists and grunt, then do everything in your power to please me." "Hardly. The man you just described is more likely to knock you over the head with a club and drag you away by the hair." -Annabelle and Zacharel

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

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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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• ...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

  Gunter Grass

  Hands, Left Hand, Restless

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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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• All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Crazy, Cells

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• Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Hands, Sound

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Mistake, Reality

  Song: Lost Woman Song

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• The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

  Hannah Kent

  Heart, Bird, Mind

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Water, Pairs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2227, Penguin

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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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• The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...

  Gordon Brown

  Heavyweights, Gentleman, May

  Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.

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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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• She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hurt, Real, Curves

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.74, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

  Neal Boortz

  Expression, Iron, Opinion

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• I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.

  DMX

  Dog, Stars, Records

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 25, 2004.

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• I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Thinking, Ordinary

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”

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