Necks Quotes - Page 15

• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  Baroness Orczy

  Simple, Knives, Doe

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

  Steven Erikson

  Men, What Matters, Chains

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• I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends on whether or not you're allergic to l-l-latex.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mistake, Mean, Slides

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• He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.

  David Nicholls

  Summer, Home, Kissing

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• The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

  Dr. Seuss

  Yawning, Names, Important

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• She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brushes, Fingers, Shiver

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Heart, Insults You

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Daughter, Dream, Strong

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.21, Bantam

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• I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

  Abbi Glines

  Strong, Hurt, Kissing

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

  Inga Muscio

  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Swimming, Rivers

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Wind in the Willows: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.66, 谷月社

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• I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. “When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance.” His eyes met mine.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Eye

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.336, MIRA

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• A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Men, Doe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2709, Bantam

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• Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Teeth, Rabbits

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.413, Anchor

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• It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. Each state you could inhabit is a burden as heavy as any physical weight, but more so, because it weighs on your soul. It is the ghost of your possibilities hanging around your neck, an invisible albatros, potentials unknowingly murdered.

  Ben Okri

  Real, Soul, Weight

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• I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Tasks, Sand

  "The Essential Dale Carnegiec".

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• There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Pain, Taken, Broken

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.

  Patrick Ness

  Pain, Names, Arms

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• She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Missing, Hug, Tears

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.604, Penguin UK

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• The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mother, Cat, Dust

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

  David Wong

  Men, Practice, Saws

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.301, Titan Books

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• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

  Elena Ferrante

  Night, Circles, Empty

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin

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• Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.

  Julie Garwood

  Sweet, Eye, Men

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Baby, Kissing

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