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“If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

Ifs Would Be Today Fighting Church Saws Right Now Breaths Breathe Gas Logical Nihilism Live For Today

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.”

“And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?”

Ifs Reason Would Be Draws Breaths Bother

Book:Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.”

Ifs Want Turns Waiting Media Breaths Stubbornness Iron Lady

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way”

People Ifs Way Giving Kind Mean Littles Philosophy Enemy Our Lives Air Love You Breaths Harm Little Things Be Kind Disguise Lungs Recycled Great Philosophy

Author:Ani DiFranco

“So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.”

Ifs Breaths Purple Vow Malice Gore Armour

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

Ifs World Would Be Dies Responsibility This World Lessons Breaths Compassionate Taking Responsibility Love Each Other Mantras Morrie

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Stills Self Lasts Order Universe Winning Moral Our Lives Stage Circumstances Harmony Breaths Obstacles Developing Constraints Peace Of Heart

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?”

Ifs Seems Comfort Offers Breaths Gentle Worn Afar Worn Out Wherever You Are

Book:The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Source: The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”

Ifs Dream Joy Winning Week Minutes Sweet Gains Destruction Eternity Breaths Sells Toys Crowns Fleeting Beggar Grapes Vines Mirth

Author:William Shakespeare

“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”

Ifs World Heart Character Able Destiny Novel Involved Empathy Breaths Sensual Breathing Another World Allegory Inhale Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally.”

Ifs Knows Heart May Art Stills Home Hands Spirit Mines Praying Flow Eternity Breaths Thee Beloved Tides Brides Truest Praying To God Hades

Author:George MacDonald

“For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die”

Ifs Want Hands Dies Drink Breaths Blind Wings Brushes

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.”

Ifs Years Firsts Sometimes Hands Wanted Beautiful Three Lost Voice Sweet Sight Breaths Three Years Beautiful Things Yawning

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”

Ifs Knows Heart Said Hands Might Happens Romance Chance Space Silence Steps My Heart Late Okay Breaths Outcomes Too Late Closing Space Between

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.”

Ifs Soul Enough Night Names Breaths Lips All Night Trembling

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Light Courses Wish Stars Attitude Feet Sky Car Baby Breaths Teeth Shooting Planes Candle Lifting Tunnels Shooting Star Feet Off The Ground Baby Teeth

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd." "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Stills I Can Reason Helping Cutting One Thing Conditions Hair Breaths Yeah Flaws Chests Relieved Spray Unattractive Warts Bad Breath

Book:Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series

“However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.”

Ifs World Trying Turns Baby Please Skins Breaths Blue Green Slap Nannies

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.”

Ifs Years May Two Different Earth Remember Asks Speak Rich Tree Tears Wind Sorrow Drink Breaths Silent Harsh Dew Harsh Words Why Now

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.”

Source: The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor

“In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?”

Ifs Men Made Pain Lasts Suffering Crime Judging Arms Breaths Train Hated Disgusting Another Man Hateful Shameful

Author:Janet Fitch

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”

Ifs Stars Terrible Breaths Termination North Star Benedick

Author:William Shakespeare

“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”

Ifs World May Stills Grows Perception Breaths Dull Vantage Point

Author:Alan Moore

“If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.”

Ifs Accepting Offers Breaths Mint

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”

Ifs Stills States Light Lasts Three Grows Emotion Morning Saws Reflection Window Empty Weak And Love Breaths Conviction Disappear Peaceful Clock Towers Consent Deep Emotions

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf in every petal in every blade of grass in every rainbow in every rushing stream in every breath of every living being. ...beyond memory and judgement lies the ocean of universal consciousness.”

Ifs Moments Spiritual Lying Memories Attention Consciousness Divine Ocean Universal Breaths Grass Judgement Streams Rainbow Leafs Blades Fullness Rushing Petals Blades Of Grass

Book:The Return Of Merlin

Source: The Return Of Merlin

“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”

Ifs Stills Fall Courses Struggle Air Willing Wind Higher Comfort Picks Logic Breaths Blow Settling Keep Going Gravity Leafs Breeze Stretching Defying Defying Gravity

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”

“Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Done Home Lost Bits Can Do Hurt Poor Lucky Breaths Wiser It Hurts Bruised Homecoming

Author:Shannon Hale

“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”

Ifs Mean Happens Fighting Left Strong Easy Grief Tears Died Breaths Greed Hills Revelations Somewhere Else Expendables

Author:Paul Monette

“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Needs Looks Self Done Life Is Felt Principles Materials Theory Understood Breaths Substance Renewal Heartbeat Lumps Raw Materials Renewal Of Life

Author:Boris Pasternak

“I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Dies Five Happened Magic Land Six Breaths Finals Casts Blow Mess Staring Spells Mates Eleven Dots Dice Come Back To Me

Author:Emily Giffin

“From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?”

People Ifs Way Feels Done Seems Left Hours Impossible Dying Goes On Breaths Edges Looking Back Remorse Deliberation

Book:The Illustrated Man

Source: The Illustrated Man

“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 took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.”

Ifs Said One Thing Heard Breaths Throat

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.”

Ifs Knows Wish Stars Loss Breaths Smile Tonight Where You Are

Author:Josh Groban

“Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.”

Ifs Body Hands Arms Letting Go Breaths Leaving Lips Necks Fever

Author:Paullina Simons

“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.”

Ifs Men Years Made Stills Two Eye Dog Evolution Red Breaths Green Distance Terror Flesh Teeth Despite Meals Owners Wilderness Yellow Stink Gleam Nuisance Poke Flicker Campfire

Author:Neil Gaiman

“She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.”

Ifs Needs Believe Soul Reason Play Dream Body Lasts Joy Night Saws Journey Materials Died Breaths Elsewhere Comprehension Attainment Firmament

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid." That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it." She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—" No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?”

Ifs Want Looks Said Eye Lord Sky Stupid Hair Mountain Daughter Breaths Angry Height Bus Usual Swear Her Eyes Apollo Needles Deep Breath Zeus Thalia Grace

Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“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”

“Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.”

Ifs Feels Heart Doe Memories Break Forever Happened Objects Tears Reader Sorrow Reflection Breaths Leaving Dear Corners Pity Spots Wander Subtle Abandoned Parting Trembling Unloved Abode Holding Back

Book:The Gift

Source: The Gift

“Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless.”

Ifs Wells Long Made Moments Felt Skins Breaths Silent Fingers Lips Warm Bars If I Could Convince Timeless Arrested Reminding Tempting Shiver Shane

Author:Rachel Caine

“This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.”

Ifs War Would Be Running Enemy Feet Minutes Battle Breaths Soviet Attacking July Pivotal

Author:Lee Child

“As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.”

Ifs Wells Breaths Rose Caught Underwater Rooftops

Author:Rick Riordan

“The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lifeline. Sounis was looking at her with concern. Her responding smile was artificial.”

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