Inches Quotes - Page 16

• They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Creativity, Exercise, Simple

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

  J.R. Ward

  Doors, Sometimes, Beats

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• Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Unique, Past, Reality

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.226, Guilford Publications

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• I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Special, Weapons

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• Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

  Walt Whitman

  Air, Miracle, Age

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• The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Prayer, Recovery, Angel

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• And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Feelings, Brain, Alive

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• No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

  Paul Auster

  Dark, Thinking, Missing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.187, Penguin

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• notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

  e. e. cummings

  Moon, Orange, Evening

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Father, Worry, Taught

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Voices of Dragons”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lying, Heart, Difficult Work

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• Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

  Rachel Caine

  Squares, Scotland, Titles

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.144, Penguin

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• A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Art, Use

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, ebookspub

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• No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moments, Sideways, Mark

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.166, Tyché

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• the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Names, Want

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.55, Zebra Books

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• It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she said. " It's a pun. You know? A play on-" "Come," the faerie knight said. "The Queen will be growing impatient." He headed down the corridor without giving Isabelle a second glance. "I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. " Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie night club called Hot Wings. Not," he added," that I have ever been there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Night, Talking

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• Five trolls in a dra-a-a-a-ag,' the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. 'Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps and a succubus in the snow.

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Two, Purple

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• How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Alive, Lasts, Next

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Littles, Trust Me

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.78, Random House

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• Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Faces, Ten, Toru Watanabe

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.172, Random House

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• And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!

  Emily Bronte

  Believe, Heart, Hair

  Emily Bronte (2015). “Wuthering Heights (Diversion Classics)”, p.171, Diversion Books

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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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• The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home.

  Doris Lessing

  Home, Cat, Yellow

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Squares, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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