Lungs Quotes

364 Lungs quotes by 291 unique authors

His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath… — Lilith Saintcrow
[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made… — Maggie Stiefvater
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag… — Colum McCann
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once,… — Karen Russell
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at… — Andrea Gibson
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter… — Robin Wasserman
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted… — Edward Gorey
i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air… — Alexandra Adornetto
The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair — Jeffrey Eugenides
He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no… — Kami Garcia
I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is… — Lauren Oliver
What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying… — Jed Rubenfeld
Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not… — Jana Oliver
I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs. — Diana Gabaldon
Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs. — Sebastian Faulks
As he stared back, he altered...as if a shield slid away fro his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from… — Sylvia Day
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should… — Lauren DeStefano
I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash… — Nora Roberts
How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her… — Cassandra Clare
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at… — Ray Bradbury
This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that… — John Green
Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she… — Rick Riordan
my lungs sucked at being lungs. — John Green

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