No one can resurrect love once it has breathed its last.

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies…

— Joan Didion

“You haven't failed me. You've breathed so much life into my existence. Don't ever be sorry for that.”

— M. Leighton

“At night, Toby breathed herself in. Her new self. Her skin smelled like honey and salt. And earth”

— Margaret Atwood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of…

— Charles Hazlewood

“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell…

— Laurie R. King

“This is perfect." I breathed. "Please tell me it won't end. Promise me.”

— Alicia Kobishop

“I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“In this reality, they breathed together, chests nearly touching on their inhalations, lips slightly parted like they could taste the sweetness of each other’s…

— Roan Parrish

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For…

— Q-Tip

I'm so sorry for not being there for you.. When you needed someone, the most. At your last time, your breathed.

— Anonymous

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their…

— Garry Wills

I missed you so much, she breathed. I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this…

— Anonymous

“Beauty isn't perfect. It's something to be felt and something to be breathed.”

— Denise Jaden

Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as…

— Martin Hopkins