Spine Quotes - Page 9

• I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Hurt, Window, Headache

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• Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Humanity, Mind

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

  Steven Morrissey

  Car, Driving, Broke

  Song: "That's How People Grow Up", 2009.

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• She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Random House

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• When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Dream, Rain

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

  Dorianne Laux

  Night, Blue, Doors

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• The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Zippers, Way

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.

  J.R. Ward

  Feet, Jumping, Doors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.120, Penguin

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• In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Two

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Eye, Kissing

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

  Rob Bell

  Enemy, Praying, Fortitude

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• Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

  James Patterson

  Rip, Trying, Might

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Skins, Body

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• As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Crazy, Heart, Blood

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin

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• The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You’ll be lucky if he doesn’t pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory) Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you’d like to share? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Nice, Sunshine

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.117, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Long, Mind, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

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• You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teeth, Use, Demon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.281, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Air, Flames

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• I've learned a thing or two from Barrons: Power is sexy. It shapes my spine, infuses my beckoning hand. I have not been devastated by Barrons' death. The alchemy of grief has forged a new metal. I have been transformed. There's only one way I can make his death okay. Undo it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sexy, Grief, Hands

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.29, Delacorte Press

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• It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.

  George Clooney

  Running, Hurt, Weekend

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• I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.

  Phil Elvrum

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

  Walt Disney

  Eye, White, Blue

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Book, Home, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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