Best breaths & ears Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?”

Voice Cold Ears Breaths Silent Dust Dull Honour Provoking Fleeting Animated Mansions

Author:Thomas Gray

“Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!”

Men Feels Firsts Would Be Color He Man Spring Ears Breaths Notes Brilliant Gentle Dull Thrill Glimpse Awakened Orchard

Book:Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.”

Light Eye Too Much Ears Breaths Tired Lips Heavy Fatigue Exhaustion Red Lips Tired Eyes

Author:Georg Buchner

“For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my dream still echoed through ears and heart, repeated with the sound of Brianna's sleeping breath. "You are mine," it had said. "Mine. And I will not let you go.”

Heart Said Stills Dream Sound Voice Sleep Air Mines Ears Breaths Letting You Go

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.”

Knows Night Secret Wind Ears Breaths Necks Whispering Chilly

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.”

Feelings Running Mother Voice Heard Ears Breaths Train Track Miles Noise Grass Footsteps Lawns Railroads Miles Away Ragged Railroad Tracks

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.”

Fall Doors Ears Breaths Heartbeat

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.”

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.”

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”

Should Said Two Running Faces Talking Doors Should Have Ears Hot Breaths Your Face

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.”

Source: Mine Till Midnight

“Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.”

Heart Persons Sound Known Trouble Blood Crazy My Heart Skins Ears Breaths Warm Driven Poison Confession Shocked Spine Shiver

Book:Poison Study

Source: Poison Study

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.”

Should Stills Feelings Eye Faces Moving Left Ears Breaths Smell Invisible Thee Touching Sensible Inward Should I Deaf Bereft

Book:Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton

Source: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton

“I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I had the chance." His ears flatten and he raises a paw. I hiss before he gets a chance, which seems to annoy him a little, since he considers hissing his own personal sound of contempt.”

Should Littles Seems Sound Chance Steps Ears Breaths Raises Calm Lifts Necks Contempt Annoying Paws Buttercup Hissing

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“You aren't even angry with me anymore, Stefan, so let me up." He didn't budge. "It would be a misconception on your part, little Tanya, if you are thinking I have to be angry to make love to you." His head bent, his lips grazing her cheek all the way to her ear. With his warm breath sending tingles all over her, he continued in a whisper, "I wanted you last night, today a dozen times, right now more than ever. Tell me to love you, Tanya. Demand it of me!”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Would Be Today Wanted Lasts Night Love You Right Now Demand Ears Let Me Breaths Angry Lips Warm Dozen Cheeks Making Love Bent Last Night Misconception Grazing

Author:Johanna Lindsey

“You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.”

Knows Wells Play Boys Changed Tomorrow Ears Breaths Warm Checks Rome Mathematician Slides Babe Ballroom Hale Chilly Heist Heist Society Katarina Bishop

Author:Ally Carter

“There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?”

Way Feels Ends Enough Night Found Strong Wall Couple Skins Ears Breaths Lips Shirts Necks Thick Locks Strong Enough Collars Puff Braids Flannels

Book:Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series

Source: Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series

“First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.”

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.”

Has Beens Made Said Moments Wanted Hours Mets Ears Breaths Cheeks Bent Will Herondale Spoken Word

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”

Should Said Faces Should Have Ears Hot Breaths Your Face

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.”

Made Beautiful Three Felt Sound Alive Heard Hair Skins Ears Breaths Filled Senses Tunes Throat Beautiful Things Palms Vibrate Physical Things Auditoriums Tune Up

Author:Jojo Moyes

“No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most unhappy way.’ ‘You are such a caveman, Julian. You look tall and elegant and princely, yet you have not matured beyond the cave.’ …’I have no intention of riding above caveman mentality,’ he growled in her ear, his breath teasing tendrils of hair and sending little flames dancing through her bloodstream. ‘There are so many benefits for the caveman.”

Way Looks Littles Ends Sides Hair Benefits Ears Breaths Dancing Intention Unhappy Flames Tall Mentality Riding Caves Elegant Tease Your Side Matured Mia

Author:Christine Feehan

“His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.”

Eye Sound Mouths Weak Ears Breaths Longing Edges Tongue Ran Diamond Studs

Author:Tammara Webber

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

“Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so dry. "Sometimes." "How about now?" he asked. And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: "Susannah. Susannah...”

People Firsts Heart Said Stills Sometimes Able Names Strong Gone Century Arms My Heart Beats Ears Twenties Breaths Dry Throat Cheeks Heart Beat Strong Arms

Author:Meg Cabot

“Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.”

Felt Voice Ears Breaths Males Warm Scent Inhale Aftershave

Author:Tammara Webber

“The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean.”

“I moved his hair out of his face. I put my hand under his nose and felt gentle, even breaths. I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It’s not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.”

Hands Wanted Faces Felt Hair Ears Breaths Moved Faults Lips Noses Gentle

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living”

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