Spine Quotes
270 Spine quotes by 222 unique authors
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She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to…
— Rick Riordan
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A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of…
— John Updike
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You’ll be lucky if he doesn’t pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory) Nice to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I love you," she whispered. Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine. "I feel so…
— Terry Goodkind
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Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said…
— Patricia Briggs
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Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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Iggy’s spine tightened, his face like ice. When he’d been at the School, they’d tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind…
— James Patterson
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I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
— Lorrie Moore
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Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete…
— William S. Burroughs
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests…
— Janet Fitch
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...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until…
— Russell T Davies
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He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my…
— Terry Pratchett
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Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone…
— Rachel Vincent
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I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth,…
— Ivan Illich
Who Wrote These Spine Quotes
222 authors contributed a total of 270 Spine Quotes, led by these top contributors: