Slips Quotes - Page 7

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

Lauren DeStefano

Husband, Hands, Shadow

4 Copy quote
As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward the floor. Four words in ancient script, an arrogantly slanted scrawl. Accept these, accept me. Well, she thought, blinking, that was certainly direct and to the point. -Adam's note to Gabrielle

Karen Marie Moning

Paper, Four, Scripts

Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1423, Dell

4 Copy quote

Show source
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Sorrow, Fingertips

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote

Show source
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

Sylvia Plath

Names, Addresses, Hanging On

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.26, Faber & Faber

5 Copy quote

Show source
All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Simone de Beauvoir

Inspiration, Opportunity, Ideas

7 Copy quote
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Jodi Picoult

Lying, Almonds, Disease

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote

Show source
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Mary Balogh

Past, Quiet, Moments

7 Copy quote
„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.

Erin Morgenstern

Simple, Long, Laughing

4 Copy quote
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Cassandra Clare

Water, Matter, Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

7 Copy quote

Show source
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Her lips brushed over his for the barest of seconds, but it was still a kiss, and when she came to her senses and dared to pull away and look at him, he had the most curious expression on his face. Brodick knew she regretted her sponatenity, but as he stared into her brilliant green eyes, he also knew, with a certainty that shook him to the core, that his life had just been irrevocably changed by this mere slip of a woman.

Julie Garwood

Believe, Eye, Kissing

Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote

Show source
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Neil Gaiman

Dream, Moving, Dark

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.80, A&C Black

10 Copy quote

Show source
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

Jojo Moyes

Real, Normal, Hours

4 Copy quote
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Margaret George

Glasses, Dear Ones, Life Is Like

Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.370, Pan Macmillan

4 Copy quote

Show source
...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

David Eddings

Sorry, Elderly, Expression

5 Copy quote
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

Alyson Noel

Disappointment, Doors, Track

5 Copy quote
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

Ken Kesey

Eye, Night, Long

32 Copy quote
Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.

Veronica Roth

Wall, Shh, Arms

16 Copy quote
You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

David Nicholls

Drug, One Day, Mouths

5 Copy quote
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

Jay Asher

Letting Go, Hands, Mountain

Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Penguin

4 Copy quote

Show source
Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

Amanda Hocking

Doing You, Doe, Married

Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.549, Pan Macmillan

4 Copy quote

Show source
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Naomi Wolf

Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

4 Copy quote

Show source
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Ayn Rand

Ambition, World, Moments

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2125, Penguin

4 Copy quote

Show source
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Virginia Woolf

Phrases, Wander, Single Word

Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

7 Copy quote

Show source
As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.

Karen Marie Moning

Hands, Heaven, Body

Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1338, Dell

7 Copy quote

Show source
It’s a cat. Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight.

Kim Harrison

Cat, Boys, Past

4 Copy quote