Tongue Quotes - Page 21

• Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sweet, Jake, Hot

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• Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Color, Envy, Poison

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

  John Keats

  Mother, Dream, Art

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.758, e-artnow

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• How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doors, Teeth, Hunters

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Kissing, Soul, Different

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• The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

  Arlene J. Chai

  Air, Space, Missing

  Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• You sound worked up. Really worked up. No, that's not it. You sound agitated...flustered...aroused." I could feel her eyes widen. "He kissed you, didn't he?" No answer. "He did! I knew it! I've seen the way he looks at you. I knew this was coming. I saw it from a mile away." I didn't want to think about it. "What was it like?" Vee pressed. "A peach kiss? A plum kiss? Or an al-fal-fa kiss?" "What?" "Was it a peck, did mouths part, or was there tongue? Never mind. You don't have to answer that. Patch isn't the kind of guy to deal with preliminaries. There was tongue involved. Guaranteed.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Iron

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• My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Father, Names

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7092, Delphi Classics

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• We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

  William Gibson

  Voice, Babel, Frequency

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.96, Penguin

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• I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moving, Skins, Body

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• I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Heart, Pushing It, Cliffs

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months," He purred but with steel in the velvet

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cat, Lovely, Velvet

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.757, Dell

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• There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Two Towers, Curse

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• The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.” Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Hair, Broken

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.34, Penguin

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• If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Gossip, Silence, Secret

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.43, Publishdrive

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Heart, Track

  Rabindranath Tagore (2005). “கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali”, p.79, Sura Books

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• What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cutting, Trying, Wicked

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• The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.

  Tessa Dare

  Country, Doors, Voice

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• Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.616

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• As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

  T. D. Jakes

  Betrayal, Struggle, Frustration

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Grief, Fire

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• It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Eye, Dust

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• Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

  Gena Showalter

  Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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