Shakes Quotes - Page 26

• I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

  Lauren DeStefano

  Sky, White, Snow

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

  Robert Crais

  Angel, Stalking, Get Away

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• Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Blue, Suffering

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, People, Brave

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• Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others." Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked. Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.

  Judith McNaught

  Voice, Accomplishment, Tears

  Judith McNaught (2000). “Whitney, My Love”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it.

  Pablo Neruda

  Queens, Sky, Hymns

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

  Julia Quinn

  Tired, Hands, Voice

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• I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mouths, Want, Intention

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• I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

  Charlaine Harris

  Slumps, Today, Snapping

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1019, Penguin

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• Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

  Tina Fey

  Machines, Milk, Size

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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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• You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

  Joni Mitchell

  Jesus, Passion, Tired

  Song: Judgement of the Moon and Stars, Album: For the Roses, 1972

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• Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

  Rachel Caine

  Laughing, Interesting, Steps

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.84, Allison & Busby

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• Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Years, Waiting

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

  Darren Shan

  Eye, Fighting, Warrior

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• ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Feelings, Spontaneity

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Summer”, p.138, Electric Book Company

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• There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

  Elizabeth Scott

  People, Sick, Smoking

  Elizabeth Scott (2012). “Between Here and Forever”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head and laughs. "God, you make me feel old.

  Alyson Noel

  Good Friend, Laughing, Looks

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

  Janet Chapman

  Real, Oil, Bed

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• Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

  Nora Roberts

  Found You, Matter, Found

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• On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hands, Way

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• Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Grief, Eye

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.826, Dell

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• The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

  Peter Grimwade

  Men, Hands, Wish

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• A slow smile began on Gideon's face, and his blue eyes sparkled. With a shake of his head, he put his hand on his chest, as if the sight of her was more than his heart could bear.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Heart, Hands

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Hero, Cheerful

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