Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image ““Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don’t make it yours.”” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I got up and went and put my arms around him from behind, and I kissed his neck in the place that always makes… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“But then he combs his fingers through my hair, starting at the base of my neck, and I shiver with uncontrollable, unexpected pleasure.” — Primula Bond Copy Share Image
“ “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of them and confuse it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Don't mistake me. I want you. You are what they call a tease. I don't like that, and I intend to make you fully aware of my displeasure by fucking you senseless and subjecting you to all kinds of stimulation that will make your tender young body shiver and writhe for my touch, and mine alone. Sometimes it will be… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“As soon as my fingers graze her skin, chills rush down her arms. She tightens her arms over her chest and rubs the chills… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“I bite back a shiver as the blood rushes up to blush my cheeks and for a moment, just for this moment, I drop… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn’t causing totally unrelated parts of me to tingle.” — Lisa Desrochers Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl underneath it, and twitch only once in a little while. What does the cicada dream when it is folded into the soil? What visions travel through it, like snow flying fast? Its dreams are lightless and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for Belinda Cabbage, which probably did not mean handing it over to the first person who asked and taking notes on what she got for it. But more than that, she wanted it with her. It had… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the future: You mix up everything you did today with everything you did yesterday and all the days before and everything everyone you ever met did and anyone they ever met, too. And salt and lizard and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
