Inches Quotes - Page 17

• Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

  M.C. Beaton

  Two, Half, Height

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

  Darren Shan

  Destiny, Towers, Cards

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• Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

  Maria Semple

  Eye, Brain, Horizon

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Rain, Darkness, Four

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Invisible, Break

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

  Angela Carter

  Two, Rubies, Chokers

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.

  Kim Harrison

  Loss, Men, Two

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• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Night, Destiny

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Squares, Mirrors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• What are you listening to?" "I picked up a DVD for Luke while I was out. Something with Mozart and sock puppets." A grin rose to my lips. "At this stage I don't think Luke can see more than ten inches beyond his face." "That explains his lack of interest. I thought maybe he preferred Beethoven.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Dvds, Rose

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.239, St. Martin's Press

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Long, Wish

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he wasn’t sure he knew how to say.

  Julia Quinn

  Flirting, Perfect, Gentleman

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• And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Moving, Twilight, Passion

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• I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Home, Night, Wind Blowing

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• Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.” “Maybe you should say that to Michael.” “Not funny, Eve,” Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. “Little bit,” she said.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Eyebrows, Littles

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.209, Allison & Busby

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• Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

  Gayle Forman

  Rain, Snow, Dresses

  Gayle Forman (2015). “I Was Here”, p.177, Penguin

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• I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

  Michele Bardsley

  Grief, Book, Journey

  Michele Bardsley (2007). “Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire”, p.99, Penguin

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• ... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

  Jandy Nelson

  School, Wind, Perfect

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.15, Penguin

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• And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Vegas, Three

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• I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love You, Eye, Reflection

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.17, Penguin

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• Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

  Henry James

  Dream, Believe, Night

  Henry James (2015). “Roderick Hudson”, p.45, Booklassic

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• There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Real, Distance

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• I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Divine dispatches: a religion roundup" Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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