Held Her Quotes

68 Held Her quotes by 56 unique authors

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. — Ernest Hemingway
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from… — Ayelet Waldman
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she… — Sarah Orne Jewett
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully… — Susan B. Anthony
My mother handed me my sister and turned on the television. My sister's fingers wrapped around my earlobes, and she squeezed and made a sort-of… — Danny Goodman
She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his… — Edith Wharton
It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through… — Robert Earl Keen
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench… — Winston Churchill
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that… — William Butler Yeats
However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as… — Gregory Maguire
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when… — Sherwood Anderson
I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the… — Nicholas Sparks
He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the… — Cassandra Clare
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He… — Ernest Hemingway
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his… — Cassandra Clare
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He… — Jodi Picoult
She stood, squared her shoulders. “We’ll do it. Together.” And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed… — Gena Showalter
Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held… — Shannon Hale
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to… — Dennis Lehane
A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a… — Ariana Franklin
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day — Khaled Hosseini

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