Breathing Quotes - Page 40

• What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Men, Breaths

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.27, Anchor

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• Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Eye, Kissing, Mind

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.103, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

  Lawrence Hill

  Writing, Heart, Sleep

  Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  William Martin

  Dream, Children, Self

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• Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Simple, Want, Want To Be Happy

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• You are my heart, my soul,” he said, his arms going around my waist and holding me tightly. “As you are mine,” I repeated. The magic in the air got stronger, thrumming through the forest, matching the rhythm of our breathing, matching the beating of our hearts. “Dance with me, this night and for the rest of our nights,” he said. “For as long as the moon shines in the sky and for as long as we live underneath her.

  Keri Arthur

  Heart, Night, Moon

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• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.

  S.J. Watson

  Home, Eye, Silence

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• Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.

  Kim Harrison

  Magic, Quiet, Scream

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Sea, Laughing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling. ... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.

  Louise Rennison

  Sorry, Pie, Gentleman

  Louise Rennison (2012). “A Midsummer Tights Dream (The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 2)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Yeah, I must have been really bad in a past life or something." He smiled, his eyes still in pain. Reaching up, he touched a strand of mt hair. " Don't leave, OK?" "Shhh. I'm not going anywhere." I kept stroking his forehead, trailing my fingers across it. His muscular shoulders gradually relaxed, his eyes closing again. His breathing slowed, became more regular. I could hear the TV on in the other room, the sound of voices. None of it mattered to me. I stayed there until long after Alex had fallen asleep-- gently caressing the vbrow of the boy I loved, trying to keep his pain at bay.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Pain, Eye, Boys

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• A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Littles, Fairy

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Dragons, Ideas

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan

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• That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.

  David Levithan

  Responsibility, Air, Dust

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• Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

  David Levithan

  Realizing, Cry, Hard

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for the most miniscule sliver of an instant, while looking at those handcuffs, I'd imagined myself climbing back into bed and pretending I wasn't cured yet.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Climbing, Hands, Bed

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.709, Dell

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• If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Hurt, Ifs, I Can

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

  Mitch Albom

  Crush, Loneliness, Moments

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

  Ami McKay

  Children, Birth, Lost

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Space

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Lonely, Book, Dark

  "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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• I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Breathing Space, Wanted

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.999, 谷月社

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• I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Angel, Mad, Desire

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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