Cupped Quotes

38 quotes by 32 authors

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming… — John Chancellor
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. — Michael Ondaatje
What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood… — Terry Tempest Williams
I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.… — George R. R. Martin
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek,… — Diana Gabaldon
You saved me again," she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. "Because… — Gaelen Foley
I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go." Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf,… — Maggie Stiefvater
For a second, he was still, blinking. Then he shook off all the blankets and coats so that his arms were free and he wrapped… — Maggie Stiefvater
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. â€œOh my God, what is THAT?â€ I used my thumb… — Maggie Stiefvater
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her… — Nalini Singh
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,… — Michael Ondaatje
Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, â€˜I have been a… — Christopher Moore
You almost died.â€ â€œBut you brought me back.â€ She cupped his face in her hands. â€œI always knew you were there. Death didn't have a… — Nalini Singh
Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at… — L.A. Weatherly
rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the… — Tamora Pierce
Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured… — Lauren Oliver
He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your… — Susan Mallery

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