Breathing Quotes - Page 39

• We’ve got to get these guys to Bubba’s. Anyone got a clue how to do it? (Nick) They gotta be breathing? (Simi) Yes. (Nick and Caleb) Well, pooh. That just takes all the fun out of it. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Guy, Clue

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• Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Hands, Rhythm

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Air, Relax

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Necks, Bones

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• If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Moving, Years, Trying

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• Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Matter, Wells

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.12, Penguin

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• Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey...and there's so much we have yet to do.' He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. 'Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.' 'Dodger?' she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned. 'No, your confounded ferret will have to stay in his basket. I was referring to myself.' 'Yes, I know.' Catherine slid her hand up to his cheek. 'Only you,' she said. 'Always you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Morning, Love You

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• You’re falling now. You’re swimming. This is not           harmless. You are not                     breathing.

  Richard Siken

  Fall, Swimming

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• What now? (Shahara) I’m thinking. (Syn) Could you think a little quicker? (Shahara) You’re not helping. (Syn) You’re lucky you’re still breathing and not limping. (Shahara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Littles, Lucky

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• Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

  Daniel Handler

  Moving, Mean, Night

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• Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can't start breathing until I see her smile at me. She always does, but the next day I'm always afraid she won't. At lunch I'm afraid she'll smile more at BT than at me. I'm afraid she'll look at him in some way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is - fear?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, Love Is, Class

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• Any problems with your flight? (Acheron) I didn’t eat my pilot if that’s what you mean. And little Nicky here is still breathing and not bleeding. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Littles, Pilots

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.97, Macmillan

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• So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Doe, Lays, Ifs

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• Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

  Samuel Beckett

  Greedy, Given, Has Beens

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.242, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mind, Losing

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Steps, Cold, Thirds

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.475, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

  Stephenie Meyer

  Taken, Magic, World

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

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• i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Eye, Gay

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Giving, Locks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.268, Penguin

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• Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

  Lisa See

  Heart, Eye, Lust

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Faithful, Brain

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying, Believe, Emotional

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Boys, Years

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• breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Dream, Drinking, Sleep

  Guy de Maupassant (1968). “Bel-Ami”

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• Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.

  Nora Roberts

  Kissing, Hands, Doors

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