Noses Quotes - Page 12

• You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

  J. K. Rowling

  Jail, People, Lovely

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Flower, Dark

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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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• Oh yeah, that’s the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn’t help it—I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Waiting, Trying

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need”, p.371, Hachette UK

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• God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Long, Als

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• Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,” I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent.” I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. “Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Sexy, Smart

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• He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Men, Soap, Chance

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• Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Running, Laughing So Hard, Giving

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.20, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• [Jem] 'It will help you sleep.' 'All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa] 'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?' 'I do not,' she said, with a whispered laugh. 'You do,' he said. 'Fortunately, I like rabbits.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Laughing, Rabbits

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• ...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

  Tove Jansson

  Interesting, Feelings, Asking

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• Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.

  P.W. Catanese

  Arrows, Bows, Liable

  P. W. Catanese (2010). “Dragon Games”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Fire, Flying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1157, Macmillan

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• I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!" "Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!" "Bah, your brain isn't on board!

  Rick Riordan

  Blood, Brain, Boards

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• Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Eye, Men

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• That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I stopped.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Children, Inspiration

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Ella Enchanted”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

  John Green

  Coffee, Winter, Kissing

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.139, Penguin

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• I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this, but I'm pretty sure that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's a little hard to figure out how we should tilt our heads so our noses don't bump. But this kiss is a promise, a vow. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's still the best.

  Margaret Haddix

  Moving, Kissing, Thinking

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

  Neal Shusterman

  Years, Squirrels, Elements

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Facts, Talent

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Men, Light

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.183, Penguin

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• I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like Lenny. Because he has a different kind of strength than Joshie. He has the strength of his sweet tuna arms. He has the strength of putting his nose in my hair and calling it home. He has the strength to cry when I go down on him. Who IS Lenny? Who DOES that? Who will ever open up to me like that again? No one. Because it's too dangerous. Lenny is a dangerous man. Joshie is more powerful, but Lenny is much more dangerous.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Sweet, Powerful, Home

  "Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel". Book by Gary Shteyngart, July 27, 2010.

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• I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

  David Sedaris

  Empty Life, People, Littles

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• Who’s there?” “The scratcher of your itch,” he said. She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?

  Jill Shalvis

  Doors, Cracks, Said

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Feb 19, 2013

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• Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He saw my fist coming, and at the last minute he ducked, so instead of punching him in the nose, like I intended, I ended up punching him in the neck. I highly doubt it even left a bruise.

  Meg Cabot

  Blood, Doubt, Bruises

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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