Swallowed Quotes

254 quotes by 200 authors

You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race… — Neil Gaiman
In a way, the worldâˆ’view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the… — George Orwell
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to… — Mitch Albom
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… — Alice Sebold
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some… — Annie Proulx
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made… — Jim Butcher
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet… — Jodi Picoult
Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped… — Charles Bukowski
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss… — Katherine Mansfield
You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand to his chest,… — Tessa Dare
He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass. — Cassandra Clare
Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable." I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I'k just swallowed. If Brandon… — Meg Cabot
I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding. — Jeffrey McDaniel
Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put… — Rachel Caine
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,… — Catherynne M. Valente
Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!! — Ryukishi07
I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if… — C.S. Lewis
We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life?… — Helen Hollick
All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is… — Charles M. Schulz
He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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