Choking Quotes
112 quotes by 107 authors
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Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
— Roland Barthes
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It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me - even before I was off…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
— Isaac Asimov
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Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers'…
— William Shakespeare
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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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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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No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.
— Gregory Maguire
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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
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When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious…
— Adrienne Rich
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Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to…
— Rachel Caine
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He ignored me, thank God, saying to Kat, "Let go of Frosty's leash. You're choking the life out of him." Kat's eyes narrowed to tiny…
— Gena Showalter
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Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.
— David Levithan
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It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a…
— Pablo Neruda
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I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement…
— Twyla Tharp
Who Wrote These Choking Quotes
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