Throat Quotes - Page 17

And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball.

Patrick O'Brian

Girl, Mother, Strong

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Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

James Russell Lowell

Wise, Taken, Cutting

James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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Fine. Sit around being inconsiderate asses…and you wonder why none of you are married. (Zarina) (Sway cleared his throat meaningfully.) Oh, shush. You don’t count. You had an arranged marriage. These losers can’t get a girl for more than three and half minutes it takes them to embarrass themselves with their feeble gropings that always disappoint. (Zarina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Girl, Three, Half

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If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Richelle Mead

Trying, Stories, Bleeding

Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.145, Penguin

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Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]

David Eddings

Drinking, Heart, Men

David Eddings (2015). “The Complete Elenium Trilogy: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight, The Sapphire Rose”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

Jennifer Donnelly

Voice, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom

Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

Robert Browning

Pain, Eye, Kissing

'Porphyria's Lover' (1842) l. 38

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First, I had no idea you were married. Somehow, I don't think Trillian knows, either." "I married Smoky and Morio to forge a soul bond so I could use their powers to search for Trillian, since we thought he was captured and in danger." She stopped, blanching. "You mean I got married for no reason?" Smoky cleared his throat. "I think we've just been insulted," he said. Morio sniggered. "Sounds like it.

Yasmine Galenorn

Mean, Thinking, Ideas

Yasmine Galenorn (2009). “Night Huntress: An Otherworld Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.

Robin McKinley

Notebook, Running, Horse

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Your problem, it is not here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's throat - 'it is here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's chest. 'My heart is heavy, too. But you must be strong. This situation, it is very serious. It is not only Cass's life that is at stake. If she dies, the Secret, it will die too.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Strong, Heart, Secret

Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.34, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

Richelle Mead

Memories, Eye, Passionate

Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Catherynne M. Valente

Hook, Cry, Catch Me

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I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Suzanne Collins

Couple, Hate, Fighting

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes.

Charlotte Bronte

Teeth, Inward, Answers

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241-

Cassandra Clare

Responsibility, Cocktails, Faults

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...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.

Katherine Hannigan

Powerful, Heart, Thinking

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Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Gregory Maguire

Evil, Giving, Normal

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William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.

Bryan Davis

Voice, Defense, Weapons

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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

Leonard Cohen

Men, Doors, Names

Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on her face, and there was an intake of breath from the girls. "Aldron," she said clearing her throat,"if he agrees to become king, I'm going to let him kiss me. Please don't stop him." Aldron thought for a moment and sighed, holding up his hand. "Wait there and do not move," he ordered Finnikin, before calling out to one of the other guards who stood on the platform. "Ask Perri if he's allowed to touch her if he's agreed to be king.

Melina Marchetta

Girl, Kings, Moving

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At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Delmore Schwartz

Cutting, Rivers, Tree

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The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

Cassandra Clare

Kitchen, Gone, Tables

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When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.

Kazuya Minekura

Butterfly, Darkness, Fluttering

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She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.

Cassandra Clare

Hands, Gears, Letters

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1199, Simon and Schuster

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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.

Tamora Pierce

Mean, Voice, Stronger

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