Shame Quote by Richard Llewellyn

“pulled in a breath and then told him”

— Kristen Ashley

“He had things he wanted to tell me too; I knew by the way his breath hung in the air before us.”

— Tina May Hall

“I didn't tell you so that you'd repeat it back. I said it because my heart commanded me to open my damn mouth.”

— Edmond Manning

“my breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be stifled.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow…

— Karen Chance

“And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.”

— Terri Farley

“And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater…

— Catherine Lacey

“Usually, it was an accident. A lie I never set out to tell. A trick I never meant to play. I’d open my mouth,…

— Rory Power

“And yet, out of the blue, a tender moment would erupt so suddenly between us that the words I longed to tell him would…

— André Aciman

“And whatever lie he would have given, it died on his lips as they met hers.”

— Victoria Schwab