Best Heartbeat Wisdom
334 Heartbeat quotes by 265 unique authors
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We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory…
— David Gemmell
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Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into…
— Darynda Jones
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Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman…
— Pat Conroy
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
— Desmond Tutu
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Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change,…
— Cameron Dokey
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Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another,…
— Lauren Oliver
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He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to…
— Kristin Hannah
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
— Jodi Picoult
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In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am…
— Mary Oliver
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My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.
— Lauren Oliver
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Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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I love you,” she whispered. He stroked his hand down her back. “Yep, you do.” “You’re supposed to say it back,” she said, pretending to…
— Nalini Singh
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the…
— Aidan Chambers
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Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon…
— Anne Michaels
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Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat,…
— Walter Kirn
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As he gave a sleepy, growling groan, that hand disappeared under the sheet. Arizona's lips parted, and her heartbeat tripped up. She cleared her throat.…
— Lori Foster
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His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he…
— Veronica Roth
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That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of…
— Hermann Hesse
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Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and…
— Ellen Hopkins
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A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
— Garth Nix
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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my…
— Margaret Atwood
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The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead,…
— Alan Lightman
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Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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