Fever Quote by Francine Prose Download Open image ““The chill lowered my defenses, and I caught a fever. A fever to understand.”” — Francine Prose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caught Fever Chill Lowered Fever Fever Fever Fever Understand
“Her illness was a relief, for if you are in a high fever you forget all your worries.” — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“It felt like chicken soup when I had a snotty mess of a cold, like a glass of icy apple juice when my body… — Sarah Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“This is the moment. We need to take it.” His breath at my ear and my own breathing seemed to match, to build. Heat… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“Chills crept up my back. It may seem like nothing to a normal person, but I wasn’t normal. I was a spy. And it… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
“the room was warming up and there was nothing quite like the comfort of being cold, then slowly feeling the heat approaching and arriving… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“It feels like I have a raging fever, like my insides are melting. This must be what it feels like the moment before you… — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.” — M. R. Noble Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’m the right amount of cold. That way, no one can hurt me.” — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
“I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magic, Sonya thinks, briefly saddened to realize that… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Like, for example, sleeve length. Should he hide the tattoos? Or just wear a T-shirt and let "them" do the talking? If one picture's… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“A woman would have to be crazy to marry, or even have sex with, a man who would prosecute every lover’s quarrel like a… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our… — Gerald Lawson Sittser Copy Share Image
Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want?… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The more sex you have, the less likely you are to catch a cold, it also reduces fever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
