Hug Quotes - Page 19

• When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?" I'm not taking them off." Why not?" I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.

  Jen Lancaster

  Mom, Jobs, Makeup

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.208, Penguin

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• You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

  Patricia Polacco

  Kitchen, Different, Four

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• He smiled and tapped my nose. "Two thank-yous in as many days. I don't suppose I'll get to see any, uh, special gratitude?" I scoffed. "Nope. You'll just have to imagine it." He gave me a half-hug and released me. "Fair enough. But I have a good imagination.

  Richelle Mead

  Gratitude, Two, Imagination

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• P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

  Louise Rennison

  Giving, Way

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• But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.

  Chris Adrian

  Regret, Blow, Moon

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.241, Granta Books

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• Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!" Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)

  James Patterson

  Blow, Jumping, Eyebrows

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• You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Sadness, Sleep

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Night, Giving

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• (She grabbed him for a bear hug.) Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Bears, Sexually

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• Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Years, Two

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• Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate’s dangerously elevated. That sound? I’m being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Love You, Heart

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• When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really seen or felt it. So I would try and catch it in jars. When that failed, I captured jars and jars of lightening bugs and told her that if we could catch enough of them, then it would look like the sun. She’d laugh, hug me, and then set them free and tell me that nothing should have to live its life in a cage. (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Mother, Sunshine

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• There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

  Neil Gaiman

  People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.92, A&C Black

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• She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me; For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.

  Christina Rossetti

  Kissing, Men, Garden

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Goblin Market - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

  Dov Davidoff

  Goodbye, Doing You, May

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• Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Class, People

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• If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

  Godfrey

  Giving, Mad, Comedian

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• As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

  Susana Martinez

  Girl, Running, Giving

  "The best of the Republican national convention: what will you remember?" by Ruth Spencer, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Football, Brother, Boys

  "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

  Nick Vujicic

  Book, World, Arms

  Interview with Lucky Severson, www.pbs.org. March 29, 2013.

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• The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Shoes, Guy, Yards

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

  Bob Saget

  House, Firsts, Said

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• Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse." The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Kissing, Fire, Light

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

  Ann Hood

  Meaningful, Strong, Kissing

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• The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Jobs, Things To Do

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