Breathing Quotes - Page 8

• Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Heart, Past

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• The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life Changing, Evil, Worry

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.244, Thomas Nelson

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• Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Simple, Two

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• How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

  Richard Bach

  Fall, Deer, Forests

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• They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Gold, Blame, Be Good

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Memories, Fall

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• You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

  Charles Dickens

  Wife, Missing, Might

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

  Joan Didion

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.196, Vintage

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• O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.

  John Keats

  Eye, Watches, Locks

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know." "No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

  Sylvia Day

  Touching, Gideon, Losing

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• I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?" He's quiet for a while and I finally lean back to look him in the eyes. He appears conflicted by something and then he sets me down on the ground, lacing his fingers through mine. "Should we see where the wind takes us?" he asks. I stare at my hand in his and then look up at him. "That sounds good to me.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Fall, Eye, Hands

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• I know that look. What are you up to, Gwen?" "What makes you think I'm up to something?" The Valkyrie snorted. "You're breathing, aren't you?

  Jennifer Estep

  Thinking, Make You Think, Looks

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• She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Lying, Mean

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• Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says a lot of stuff. Sometimes I listen, All I know is, every time I open my eyes, my brian kicks on. Something wakes up deep in my belly, and I know I'll do anything it takes... To. Just. Keep. Breathing.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Wake Up, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 03, 2012

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• The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.215, Bantam

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• My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.

  Pittacus Lore

  Simple, Terror, Feels

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• Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Team, Fire

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• He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

  Tina St. John

  Saws, Necks, Ghost

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• His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. “I thought I heard something.” “Yeah, well, guess what? I’m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Doors, Noise

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

  Gayle Forman

  Travel, Too Much, Chaos

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• Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

  Rachel Caine

  Night, Air, Vampire

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.657, Penguin

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• Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Men, Three, Stills

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• He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one breathing heavily. He pulled me to him, bringing our bodies together. The world was all heat and electricity, thick with tension that was only one spark away from exploding around us. I was balancing on another precipice, which wasn’t easy to do in heels. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and this time I was the one who drew him closer.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Together, Sparks

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• I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

  John Boyne

  Life, Thinking, Differences

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