Choke Quotes
296 quotes by 250 authors
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You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?
— Gayle Forman
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I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly…
— Stephenie Meyer
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People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes…
— Jane Hamilton
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I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small…
— Franny Billingsley
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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,†Ned said…
— George R. R. Martin
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I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little…
— Gayle Forman
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The…
— Jonathan Kozol
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No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.
— Gregory Maguire
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They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that…
— Georgette Heyer
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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh…
— Bram Stoker
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She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams.…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of…
— Ellen Hopkins
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So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he…
— Neil Gaiman
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It’s not wondering what I breathe in, but who, that threatens to choke me.
— Suzanne Collins
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A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or…
— Hugh Howey
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Choke Quotes
250 authors contributed a total of 296 Choke Quotes, led by these top contributors: