Mouths Quotes - Page 39

• Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

  Anthony Horowitz

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mistake, Mind, Embarrassing

  "I've Got Your Number: A Novel". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2012.

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• I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Giving, Credit

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Free Four - Tobias tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

  Kristin Cashore

  Wise, Fall, Thoughtful

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.165, Penguin

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• Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Nuisance, Matter

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• Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Voice, Breasts

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.52, Random House

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• Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an understatement. His face is swollen and purple. He has a split lip and a cut running through his eyebrow. He keeps his eyes down on the way to his table, not even lifting them to look at me. I glance across the room at Four. He wears the satisfied smile I wish I had on.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Cutting

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• Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.

  Veronica Roth

  Hair, Ears, Way

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Are you conceding?' he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise. 'Seems like that serum did you some good after all...' I shove him as hard as I can. 'Take that back. Take it back now.' 'Okay, okay!' He puts up his hands. 'It's just... I'm not very nice either, you know. That's why I like you so- ' 'Out!' I shout, pointing at the door.

  Veronica Roth

  I Like You, Nice, Fall

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• I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

  Veronica Roth

  Loyalty, Believe, Eye

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.

  Veronica Roth

  Animal, Giving, Dying

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• I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it. "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that." Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about..." I swallow another sob. "...you're the stupid one.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Girlfriend, Stupid

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• When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Said, Witch Of Portobello

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• Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Vomiting, Cannibal

  "In the Dumps", www.newyorker.com. September 27, 1993.

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• The Beast Lord walked out of the warehouse. The screen went dark. My knight in furry armor. Saiman opened his mouth. "This is why I didn't. Personally, I think your smile is inappropriate.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Thinking, Knights

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.169, Penguin

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• She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Ducks, Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Kissing, Bye

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

  Markus Zusak

  Perfect, Loving You, Want

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• He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Desari reached up to trace his lips. ‘You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth.’ He arched an eyebrow at her. ‘Just my mouth is amazing?’ ‘You are such a man.’ Her eyes laughed at him. ‘You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent.’ He nodded. ‘Magnificent. I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words, lifemate.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Lying, Paris

  Anne Sexton, “Oh”

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• He knew he had no right to touch her, crave her like air, but he did both. And when he put his mouth on hers, he recognized the taste of her, like she'd been made just for him.

  Jill Shalvis

  Air, Taste, Made

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• Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Feels, Obliged, Kvothe

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.235, Hachette UK

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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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