Necks Quotes - Page 7

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

David Mitchell

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Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

Gaston Leroux

Girl, Eye, Voice

Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.10, e-artnow

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The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Sheri S. Tepper

Littles, Maidens, Protect

Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “Beauty”, p.10, Spectra

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The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

Libba Bray

Night, Wind, Secret

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lust, Veins, Hips

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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

Anne Carson

Running, Dream, Rain

Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

John Grogan

Dad, Cutting, Looks

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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

W. Somerset Maugham

Kissing, Knives, Muffins

W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books

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From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

Christopher Paolini

Eye, Blow, Saws

Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.566, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

Barbara Kingsolver

Children, Men, Hair

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

Tree, Forever, Forests

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.443, Faber & Faber

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Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.

Sylvia Plath

Hate, Speak, Silent

Sylvia Plath (2017). “Winter Trees”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

John Green

Morning, Stars, Real

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.78, A&C Black

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I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

Jamie O'Neill

Book, Reading, Thinking

Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

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The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

Sylvia Plath

Thinking, Turkeys, Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Car, Afternoon, Painful

Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Guilty Pleasures”, p.144, Hachette UK

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Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.

Kate Brian

Fire, Hands, Awkward

Kate Brian (2012). “Invitation Only: A Private novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

Dana Stabenow

Mean, Idaho, Alaska

Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Diana Wynne Jones

Trying, Typical, Break

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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Eye, Moon, Feet

Edgar Rice Burroughs (2016). “Tarzan of the Apes: free audiobook included”, p.48, Wizio Publishing

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He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

Cornelia Funke

Father, Stories, Ears

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My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Warren Ellis

Writing, Focus, Etc

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Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

Christopher Paolini

Dark, Trying, Scare

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Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

Philip Larkin

Children, Husband, Lying

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