Spine Quotes

270 Spine quotes by 222 unique authors

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is… — Kristin Hannah
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your… — E E Cummings
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for… — Rob Bell
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. — Robert Anton Wilson
I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast… — Rick Riordan
Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip… — James Patterson
I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm,… — Maggie Stiefvater
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine — Margaret Thatcher
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that. — Lorrie Moore
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
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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