Held Breath Quotes
- It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps… — James Agee
- by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to… — Anne Lamott
- Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form… — Anne Lamott
- Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
- ...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her. — Laini Taylor