Swollen Quotes

• If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

  Chris Cleave

  Men, Faces, Your Face

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  Mao Zedong

  Glitter, Legs, Tongue

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• Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

  Holly Black

  Beautiful, Strange, Possibility

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Francis Bacon

  Light, Rivers, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Praise'

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• The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hard Work, Garden, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Air, Mouths

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Eye, Fiction, Red

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• What would people look like
  if we could see them as they are,
  soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
  reckless, pinned against time?

  Ellen Bass

  People, Looks, Honey

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• Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

  Julie Andrews

  Grateful, Hard Work, Be Grateful

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Wings, Heaven

  Christopher Marlowe (2005). “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, p.49, Routledge

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• Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

  Sandra Cisneros

  Doors, Bricks, Crumbling

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.26, Vintage

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• I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, War, Black

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  Sophocles

  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

  William S. Burroughs

  Spiritual, Hate, Stupid

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• His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

  Alice Munro

  Men, Absurd, Feels

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 18, 2010

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• How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Sight, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 532, 1895.

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• Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.

  Ketzel Levine

  Beauty, Education, Real

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• These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

  Mark Strand

  Mother, Kissing, Boys

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Knopf

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• She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, Eye, Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2964, Bantam

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mistake, Apology, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Passion, Eye

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• There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.

  Bette Midler

  Sleep, Media, Way

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Sweet, Air

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