Air Quote by Miranda July

“I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.”

— Miranda July

“He needed this woman more than he needed to breathe. Air was suddenly an extraneous element that meant little without this woman’s taste flooding…

— Nicole Edwards

“There was no breath in him, no flush of blood, no taint of sweat or tears. Next to him, I felt the grossness of…

— Martine Leavitt

“He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.”

— Alyson Richman

“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“He felt closer to dust, he said, then to light, air or water. There was nothing he found so unbearable as a well-dusted house,…

— W.G. Sebald

He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

— Robin McKinley

“And in her reverence of his skin, he felt that shame wither and curl, like paper on a flame, and float upward, disintegrating into…

— Amy Harmon

“She smelled him. The blood was rushing through his veins. She could sniff out the heat in his body. His odour saturated her nostrils…

— Thomas Emson

“Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“this was the man who would not submit to her need for probing intimacy, overintimacy, the urge to ask, examine, delve, draw things out,…

— Don DeLillo

“as if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and…

— Michael Ondaatje