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“If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.”

Ifs Prayer Cry Wind All Things Absolutes Breaths Breathe Cease Submit Weary Decree Incessant Stifling Bidding

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments

“I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying - all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable.”

People Ifs Hard Fun Stuff Cry Breaths Uncomfortable Hard Times Hug Cuddling Hug Me Snuggling

Author:Angelina Jolie

“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

Long Dies Sadness Cry Breaths Caught Idiot Poison Chests Solitary Solitary Life

Author:Saul Bellow

“The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.”

Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!”

“Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood of the Lindenshield clan began to roar through his veins. He drew breath and out crashed the war cry of the icemark.”

War Fighting Felt Blood Cry Weak Breaths Legs Sensations Veins Clans War Cry

Author:Stuart Hill

“Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.”

Want I Can Dream Eye Dies Dark Silence Darkness Forever Awareness Cry Goes On Mouths Breaths Silence Is Wanting To Die Dark Places I Want To Die

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!”

Men Hate Common Air Cry I Hate Breaths Uncertainty Prize Rotten

Book:Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”

Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1

“I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.”

People Want Hands Wanted Remember Faces Turns Felt Break Too Much Cry Strange Skins Breaths Shoulders Touched Dislike Hug Traveled Touch Me Hug Me Break Even

Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.”

Long Cry Pure Bird Breaths Flight Silver Soar Long Life Bosoms Serene Ethereal Speeding Orbs

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.”

Ifs Doe Said Running Turns Given Cry Dignity Breaths Terror Masculine Incentives Jamie Huskies

Book:The Demon's Covenant

Source: The Demon's Covenant

“He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.”

Ifs Made Sometimes Done Next Lost Attention Happened Stupid Cry Arms Breaths Careful Legs Pay Attention Hated Temper Bruises

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.”

Thinking Knows Feels Use Felt Enjoy Forever Too Much Alive Sadness Cry Habit Absolutes Breaths Who You Are Series Charity Useless Relief Favourite Sunlight Sigh Taunting Churning Use To Be

Author:Claudia Gray

“I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.”

Knows Way Stills Body Happens Air Stupid Cry Goes On Quiet Breaths Lays Hiding Throat Screws Lungs Starving Being Quiet

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.”

Trying Kids Used Mother Interesting Cry Son Died Breaths Mother Died

Author:Mira Grant

“Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?”

“TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.”

I Can Pain Names Cry Arms Breaths Noise Necks Wraps Blanket Grabbing Let Him Go

Author:Patrick Ness

“He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!”

World Feels Firsts Helping Light Lying Born Sun Cry Breaths Snow Dragons Thunder Born Again Slopes Wheel Of Time

Book:New Spring: The Novel

Source: New Spring: The Novel

“One Time, One Day between Davie and Roberta , I asked my mom why she persisted, kept on having baby after baby, She looked at me, at a spot between my eyes, blinking like I had suddenly fallen crazy. She paused before answering as if to confide would legitimize my fears. She drew a deep breath, leaned against the chair. I touched her hand and I thought she might cry. Instead she put baby Davie in my arms Pattyn, she said, it's a woman's role. I decided if it was my role, I'd rather disappear.”

Ifs Said Hands Might Eye Roles Crazy Cry Baby Arms Mom One Day Decided Breaths My Mom Disappear Spots Fallen Touched Chairs One Time Deep Breath Women's Roles

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)”

Ifs Way Worry Our Lives Sky Cry Design Sorrow Ultimate Intelligent Breaths Angry Scared Confused Gates Intelligent Design I'm Sad Pearly Gates

Book:Tilt

Source: Tilt

“This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again”

Ifs Trying Heart Doe Made Young Laughing Blood Dying Love You Cry Arms Walking Breaths Sticks Breathe Peers Just Do It Things You Like

Author:Regina Spektor

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”

Grief Cry Sorrow Breaths So Sad

Book:The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.”

Trying Young Laughing Dying Cry Breaths Chaos Breathe

Author:Regina Spektor