Swallowed Quotes

254 Swallowed quotes by 200 unique authors

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
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet… — Charlotte Bronte
she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she… — Jennifer Crusie
No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her… — Alane Ferguson
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning… — John Green
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in… — Douglas Adams
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to… — James Dashner
Shut up," Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. "I don't think you're stupid."… — Lauren Kate
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. — Shirley Jackson
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them.… — Sarah Dessen

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