Muscles Quotes - Page 26

• There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

  Mary Karr

  Zero, Heart, Space

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• You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.

  Shel Silverstein

  Lying, Moving, Lions

  Shel Silverstein (1963). “Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back”

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• Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam," she said. "Don't go.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Names, Grace

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• Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Strong, Hero

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 22, 2011

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• I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Courage, Moving, Keys

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• As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.

  Gena Showalter

  Teacher, Fun, Teenager

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Catch a Mate”, p.238, Harlequin

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• How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?

  Meg Cabot

  Abdominals, Minutes

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• Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his bare skin causing his muscles to fall into sharp relief. He’d washed the river gunk out of his hair and now he threw it back, the water droplets shimmering in the light. The scene looked for all the world like a really good romance novel cover.

  Karen Chance

  Fall, Light, Hair

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1010, Penguin

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• Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.

  John Flanagan

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.83, Random House

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• I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

  Lisa Kleypas

  Good Day, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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• Don't touch my muscles

  Nick Jonas

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• The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Mind

  "The Grapes of Wrath".

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• The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

  Gena Showalter

  Moon, Rays, Buffets

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Playing with Fire”, p.317, Harlequin

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• I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

  Jon McGregor

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?" A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway." "While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.

  Gena Showalter

  Stupid, Eye, Should Have

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.19, HQN Books

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Educational, Heart, Men

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, 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, Breathing, Air

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

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• I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Trying, I Smile, Heard

  Cecil Castellucci (2006). “Boy Proof”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Dark, Clothes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Fire, Knives

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.468, Penguin

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• The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous yellow talons, still and silent like a gargoyle in full sunlight. I took a swig from the bottle and set it so I could still see the creatures reflection. Nude and hairless, it didn't carry a single ounce of fat on its lean frame. Its skin stretched so tight over the cords of muscle, it threatened to snap. Like a thin layer of wax melted over an anatomy model. Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Reflection, Yellow

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• I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had dismissed the notion as pure exaggeration. Little did I realize the actual physical weakness. It felt as if my bones had dissolved and my muscles could no longer support my weight.

  Maria V. Snyder

  People, Support, Weakness

  Maria V. Snyder (2017). “Storm Glass: A Fantasy Novel with Murder and Magic”, p.267, MIRA

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• But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder and scraped the side of Annie’s house. Watching those muscles bunch and flex every time he moved had made her crazy and she’d finally grabbed his shirt, thrown it at him, and delivered a stern lecture on the depletion of the ozone layer and skin cancer.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Cancer, Crazy, Ozone Layer

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