Breathing Quotes - Page 38

• But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sleep, Secret, Digging

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• Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

  Tessa Dare

  Love, Smile, Kill Me

  Tessa Dare (2009). “A Lady of Persuasion”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, California

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books

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• It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

  Tim Winton

  Thinking

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Hurt, Pain

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• Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

  Jenny Downham

  Breathe, Easy

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

  P. C. Cast

  Feelings, Intense, Stomach

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.122, Macmillan

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• How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

  Markus Zusak

  Alive, Checks, Ifs

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, Wish, Substance

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. “Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?” “If it was?” I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? “I don’t do hypotheticals. Little girl.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Dark, Thinking

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.619, Dell

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• There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.

  Harper Lee

  Light, Blue, Sound

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Meditation, Helping

  "In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You". Interview with John Malkin, www.lionsroar.com. July 1, 2003.

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• Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

  P. C. Cast

  Dark, Hades, Dangerous

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• Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fire, Dragons, Oxygen

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• A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.162, Broadview Press

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• And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away

  William Faulkner

  Dog, Echoes, Air

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It’s just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I’d be fine. (Aimee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Papa, Needs, Annoying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I’m not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There’s the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doors, Leaving, Use

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.264, Macmillan

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• Oh, pooh, you’re just like akri. No, Simmi, don’t be breathing fire around the flammable objects or small children. Except for that black plastic card that’s not really plastic. It some metal thing, but the Simi loves it cause it let her buy everything she want without limit. He never say no to Simi when she use it. Oh, hello, there, Fang. You okay? You looking kind of peaked or piqued or…? Oh, heck, the Simi can never keep those straight. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Fire, Black

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• I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

  Robert Bolt

  Nice

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.105, A&C Black

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• And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Dad, Heart

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• Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them." "No. I won't let them take you." "You have to," I begged. He was breathing hard, every part of him braced and ready to attack. We locked gazes, and a thousand messages seemed to flow between us as the old electricity crackled in the air.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Air, Flow

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1091, Penguin

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• There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free

  Joni Mitchell

  Weed, Dream, Queens

  Song: Cactus Tree

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• I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Smell, New Life, Body

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.3, Scholastic Inc.

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