Spine Quotes - Page 11

• Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

  Jill Scott

  Mom, Powerful, Blessing

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• Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

  Lawrence Welk

  Night, Chill, Wells

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Wall, Book, Dark

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

  William Gibson

  Rain, Eye, Glasses

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.220, Penguin

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• I love you," she whispered. Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine. "I feel so frustrated that there aren't any better words than "I love you,"" he said. "It doesn't seem enough for the way I feel about you. I'm sorry there aren't any better words to tell you." "They are words enough for me." "Then, I love you, Kahlan. A thousand times, a million times, I love you. Forever.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sorry, Love You, Forever

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

  Patricia Briggs

  Voice, Sound, Rabbits

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.95, Penguin

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• Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Husband, Thinking, Lucky Charms

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• Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.

  James Patterson

  School, Night, Ice

  James Patterson (2005). “The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

  Lorrie Moore

  I Realized

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Anagrams”, p.37, Vintage

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• He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Suffering, Jelly

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• Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone with the truth, anger can't survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear.

  Rachel Vincent

  Powerful, Dark, Needs

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “My Soul to Steal”, p.72, Harlequin

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• I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

  Ivan Illich

  Morning, Liars, Ideas

  "Land of Found Friends". "We the People" radio program with Jerry Brown on March 22, 1996. Whole Earth Review, No. 90, www.aislingmagazine.com. Summer 1997.

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• The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the physical body, as in what we call the subtle physical body, the body of energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Body

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• The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Eye, Buddhism

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• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Records, Fingers

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• I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

  Al Seckel

  Wall, Book, Creative

  "Kindle or Kindling?" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2009.

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• A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

  Sophy Burnham

  Running, Angel, Imagination

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.78, Penguin

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• I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Firsts, Process

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Character, Mean

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• I love the tempestuousness of oceans and the calmness and solitude of lakes. Also, sensuality that drips and runs down the spine. And I'm not afraid to cry. Tears are a form of expression, and that's sexy.

  David Boreanaz

  Sexy, Running, Ocean

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• Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, America, Political

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• Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Powerful, Life Changing, Heart

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• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Crazy, Thinking, Feet

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Blood, Chill

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