Tightly Quotes
267 Tightly quotes by 223 unique authors
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You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know all there was…
— Suzanne Collins
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Fine," Strider said tightly. "You can. But you wont. Because you know that if you take the woman out of this home, I'll go gray…
— Gena Showalter
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Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.
— Yasmine Galenorn
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,…
— Philip Pullman
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The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.
— Joel Salatin
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She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be…
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go.…
— Kristin Hannah
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My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. “Now that’s what I call a scream,” he said, grinning at me.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard…
— Christopher Paolini
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Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better…
— Karen Marie Moning
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That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar…
— Charlotte Bronte
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… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this…
— Miranda July
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He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He wanted her to have his…
— Christine Feehan
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You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to…
— Cassandra Clare
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At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like…
— Suzanne Collins
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One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on…
— Karen Marie Moning
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There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
— Patrick Ness
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Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms…
— Ally Carter
Who Wrote These Tightly Quotes
223 authors contributed a total of 267 Tightly Quotes, led by these top contributors: