Teeth Quotes - Page 7

• Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Hate, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.75, Macmillan

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• when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Empty Places, Nerves

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

  Melissa Bank

  Hate, Feels, Unmarried

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.153, Penguin

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• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

  John Gardner

  Grows, Pursue, Tigers

  John Gardner, Joe Servello (1977). “In the suicide mountains”, Random House Inc

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• I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.

  Diana Palmer

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Diana Palmer (2012). “Lawless”, p.286, Harlequin

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• "I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. It's dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything in your life. I swear it on what little bit of human soul I have left."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hands, People

  "Night Play". Book by Sherrilyn Kenyon, 2010.

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• You have some severe mental problem I need to be aware of, don’t you? (Shahara) Just because I eat babies for breakfast and pick my teeth with their bones doesn’t mean I’m nuts. (Syn) Any other weird habits I should be aware of? (Shahara) Just my need to dance naked in the streets under the light of a full moon. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Mean, Moon

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• Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs hardly belonged to him, he sprang down and stumbled across to Swiftpaw. The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat's. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Eye, Fighting

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• He said he–meaning you–had been addicted to this drug he fed Sunshine. Getting anything that personal out of you is like removing a tooth from a lion without a tranquilizer. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Drug, Lions

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.745, Macmillan

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• The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves. I don’t like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don’t have hooves, do he? (Simi) No, Simi, he doesn’t. (Acheron) Ooo, good eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Sound, Tonight

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• Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead.

  Gail Giles

  Alive, Corpses

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• There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

  John Marsden

  Tired, Past, Knees

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It was great, wasn’t it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris) Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stuff, Exciting

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• This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

  Harlan Coben

  Tattoo

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Harlan Coben 3 Novel Collection”, p.404, Penguin

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• I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta’s eyes, only now they hold my gaze. Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock. “Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Rip, Eye

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• Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Memories, Writing, Energy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

  Sharon Lee

  Tails, World, Remember

  Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2007). “Agent of Change”, p.29, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Hate, Confused, Hands

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

  Paullina Simons

  Pain, Heart, Brave

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• Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Stars, Attitude

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• He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Bangs, Cameras

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Mar 23, 2012

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• What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Crush, Girl, Heart

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Blood Roses”, Harper Collins

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• Then I say, "Let's go and brush our teeth." So Lola says, "But Charlie, I can't brush my teeth because somebody is using my tooth." "But who would use your toothbrush?" I ask. Lola says "I think that lion. I saw a lion with my toothbrush and now he's brushing his teeth with it." "But it isn't this your toothbrush Lola?" "Oh," says Lola, "he must be using yours.

  Lauren Child

  Thinking, Use, Lions

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• I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Gentleman, Twists

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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