Beats Quote by Anonymous

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became…

— Tess Gerritsen

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

— Ann Brashares

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart…

— Rachel Vincent

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

— Christopher Pike

“My heart stopped beating, I know it did. Hearts do that sometimes, for just a beat or two. Then they start up again. But…

— Ann Rinaldi

“If my heart could beat it would have skipped one or two as red pierces through.”

— Ryan Mecum

“Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway.”

— Dean Koontz

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

— Fernando Pessoa

“When they say "my heart skipped a beat," they're full of crap. Really, what they mean is, your heart sort of stutters and thinks…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling…

— Stephanie Kallos