Best Wrist Quotations
302 Wrist quotes by 200 unique authors
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My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.…
— Theodore Roethke
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my…
— Sarah Dessen
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Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled…
— Lynn Viehl
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He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's…
— Loretta Chase
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As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed…
— Emily Bronte
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Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.
— Neal Shusterman
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He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.
— Cassandra Clare
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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in…
— Daniel Woodrell
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Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
— Robin Hobb
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Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
— Lee Child
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I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems…
— Lisa Kleypas
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He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the…
— Lee Child
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Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and…
— Alexandra Bracken
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She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You…
— Betty Smith
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Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a…
— Christopher Moore
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Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it…
— Heather Brewer
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He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping…
— N.K. Jemisin
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There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.…
— Suzanne Collins
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Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. “Well, look at that.”…
— Ilona Andrews
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