Swallow Quotes
435 quotes by 367 authors
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You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it…
— Craig Silvey
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Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the…
— John Green
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was…
— John Green
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I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to.…
— Lauren Oliver
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the…
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
— Charles Bukowski
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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it…
— Arthur Golden
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Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!
— Anthony Horowitz
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True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together…
— P. C. Cast
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She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
— Isabel Allende
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I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep…
— Veronica Roth
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Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for…
— Isaac Marion
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When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't."…
— Marie Lu
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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
— James Joyce
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She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she…
— J. Lynn
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Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one…
— Anais Nin
Who Wrote These Swallow Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 435 Swallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: