Naked Quotes - Page 18

• When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me.

  Jenny Lawson

  Brother, Sleep, Men

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  Delphine de Vigan

  War, Eye, Blood

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.156, A&C Black

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• Then why are you getting dressed?” “Maybe I don’t like being the only naked one in the room,” I said sarcastically. And immediately regretted it. “That is easily remedied,” he told me, and pulled off his sweater.

  Karen Chance

  Sweaters, Rooms, Said

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of course I am, I thought angrily, and went back to the bed for a sheet. God forbid I actually wake up dressed anymore.

  Karen Chance

  Halfway There, Doors, Feet

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• For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. “I just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole ‘all the cute girls run around naked’ thing?” “I defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews,” she replied coolly. "I’ve seen and heard things even you haven’t thought of.” “Care to test out that theory?” She slammed the door in his face again.

  Julie James

  Cute, Girl, Running

  Julie James (2008). “Just the Sexiest Man Alive”, p.84, Penguin

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• On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Christian, Morning

  "The Satanic Bible" by Anton Szandor LaVey, As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe, 1969.

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• Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Dancing, Feelings

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• You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

  Junot Diaz

  Sad, Breakup, Phones

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

  Laini Taylor

  Fate, Bed, Dresses

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• Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

  John Wesley

  Giving, Purpose, Widows

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• Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Age

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2007.

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

  Abbi Glines

  Wall, School, Kids

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Fallen Too Far”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• This time Clary concentrated, trying to focus her mind on Simon-The Simon-ness of him, the shape of the way he thought, the feeling of hearing his voice, the sence of him close. His whispers, his secrets, the way he made her laugh. 'So', she thought conversationally, 'now that I'm in your mind, wnat to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?' Simon jumped. "I heard that! And, no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Laughing, Focus

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• You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.

  Abbi Glines

  Beautiful, Bed, Would Be

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Smell, Water, Soap

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• Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace? Simon: I heard that and NO... You've seen him naked? Clary: Well not entirely but- Simon: Enough

  Cassandra Clare

  Mind, Want, Enough

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• How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Night, Clothes, Car

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• At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.

  Roger Ebert

  Communication, Reading, Thinking

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• I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

  Joe Hill

  Powerful, Adventure, Snakes

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• You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sky, Giving

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• I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Enemy, Shields, Faces

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

  John Berger

  Vanity, Mirrors, Hands

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• You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.

  Abbi Glines

  Sexy, Baby, Night

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Go on,” he said in a low tone that was a dare. “Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you.

  Nalini Singh

  Goes On, Tone, Hungry

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