Clenched Quotes

78 Clenched quotes by 66 unique authors

The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that… — Judy Blundell
You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am. — John Flanagan
I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will." Her heart caught. "What does that mean?" "It means… — Jill Shalvis
I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth.… — Eloisa James
Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were… — Stephen R. Donaldson
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in… — Stephen R. Donaldson
But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut. — Gayle Forman
With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or… — Paul Celan
You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip… — Kim Harrison
He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might… — Rachel Vincent
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,… — C.S. Lewis
I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like… — Patrick Ness
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other. — Carl Sandburg
She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. — Susan Sontag
Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his eyes. — Richelle Mead
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the… — Frederick Buechner
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. — Ann Voskamp
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. — Indira Gandhi
If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched… — Superman
I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. — James Ellroy
No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched. — George Jean Nathan
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There… — Laurel Lee
LI understand that Scissors can beat Paper, and I get how Rock can beat Scissors, but there's no fucking way Paper can beat Rock. Paper… — Carlin Whisler

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