Tongue Quotes - Page 17

• He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows.

  Garth Stein

  Beautiful, Hands, Long

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• You're surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it...it's in your lungs and under your tongue and between your fingers and toes.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Toes, Breathe, Fingers

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• Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now.

  Eoin Colfer

  Horse, Centaurs, Necks

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.247, Penguin UK

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• The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

  Lauren Oliver

  Coffee, Sunset, Ice Cream

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mirrors, Pigs, Dragons

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• Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

  Virginia Woolf

  Landscape, Might, Language

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.422, Wordsworth Editions

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• What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dog, Kings, Lying

  Robert E. Howard (2015). “The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mask, District 12, Indifferent

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Blow, Missing

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• But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Heart, Feet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and a way of looking very directly at one. Now he had to admit that she had become more important to him than anyone else in the world. The idea of a future without her wasn't to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.

  Betty Neels

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Betty Neels (2012). “Roses Have Thorns”, p.48, Harlequin

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• "A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others."

  R. A. Salvatore

  Kings, Lying, Men

  "Servant of the Shard (The Sellswords, Book 1)". Book by R.A. Salvatore, 2000.

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• And what do you want right now?" Right now I itch to heal his wounds and forget my own. He touches my cheek with the tips of his fingers. My breath hitches. "Do you want to kiss me, Alex?" I whisper. "Dios mio, I want to kiss you ... to taste your lips, your tongue." He gently traces my lips withthe tips of his fingers. "Do you want me to kiss you? Nobody else would know but the two of us.

  Simone Elkeles

  Kissing, Two, Dio

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• The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Narrators, Listeners, Eagerness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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• When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Past, Bully

  "On Chesil Beach" by Ian Mcewan, December 25, 2006.

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• ...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

  Lauren Kate

  Gun, Mind, Would Be

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.421, Delacorte Press

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• My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

  Tamora Pierce

  Knights, Knives, Mistress

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.333, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Chance

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Hands, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

  John Green

  Powerful, Kissing, Two

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.213, A&C Black

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• Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

  John Green

  Should, Sunscreen

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• Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

  N.D. Wilson

  Ifs

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• I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jinn, Don't Leave Me, Fit

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

  Elizabeth I

  Teaching, Would Be, Speak

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