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“You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. "I didn't say anything." Gritting my teeth, I nodded. "No, I know. It's just-" I decided to take a risk and stare him down. "I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.”

Ifs Knows Said Helping Used Voice Perfect Risk Decided Okay Breaths Distance Teeth Staring Shut Up Say Anything Dylan Max Complement Helping Each Other Unwelcome Maximum Ride

Author:James Patterson

“Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there’s a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)”

“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

“Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.”

Ifs Feels Fun Enjoy Wind Huge Hair Breaths Banking Flew Arcs Deep Breath Stylist Just For Fun

Book:The Angel Experiment

Source: The Angel Experiment

“She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.”

Ifs Way Firsts Said Ends Hard Names First Time Breaths Hearing Caress William Herondale

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.”

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling.”

Ifs Should Body Faces Bits Voice Breaths Notes Warm Spoiled Slender Implying Annabelle

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?" He loved the flush that appeared on her face, and there was an intake of breath from the girls. "Aldron," she said clearing her throat,"if he agrees to become king, I'm going to let him kiss me. Please don't stop him." Aldron thought for a moment and sighed, holding up his hand. "Wait there and do not move," he ordered Finnikin, before calling out to one of the other guards who stood on the platform. "Ask Perri if he's allowed to touch her if he's agreed to be king.”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Moments Hands Faces Moving Girl Asks Waiting Kings Please Calling Kissing Breaths Agree Throat Platforms Kiss Me Clearing

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.”

Ifs Cities Quiet Breaths Museums Dublin

Author:Derek Landy

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible”

Ifs Heart Made Dream Earth Joy Spirit House Born Fashion All Things Breaths Fruit Affection Seeds Beloved Visible Tenderness Thread Harvest Reap

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The question is, what are you going to do?" It turns out the question that's been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. But it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it. What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly - as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me - then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

Ifs Turns Sides Black White Answers Arms Eating Breaths Wings Black And White Deep Breath Peeta Mockingjay Take A Deep Breath Ploy Cinna

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.”

Ifs Knows Trying Said Moments Water Car Havens Please Breaths Wheels Ducks God Knows Slides Foreheads Deep Breath Steering

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.”

Ifs Men Needs Children Said I Can Lasts Girl Voice Wonder Dog Mines Serious Breaths Mad Dear Folks Wit God Love Relax Priests Bites Shopping Riot Bait Granny Bickering Grans

Author:Tamora Pierce

“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

“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

“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 poison as if it were nectar.”

Ifs Lying Greater Sweet Fool Breaths Fantastic Idiot Poison Jane Nectar

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.”

Ifs Important Known Gone Style Breaths Interrupted Dwarfs Dwarves Thorin

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.”

Ifs Way Persons Sometimes Matter Fighting Courses Grows Can Do Born Challenges Behinds Lucky Hundred Tasks Breaths Obstacles Miles Mud Surroundings Choke Meanness

Author:Jane Hamilton

“Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!”

Ifs Heart Earth Mother Song Drink Eternal Breaths Streams

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else. What is it? It's more like, um... Rose Tyler: Bad breath. Harriet Jones: That's it! The Doctor: Calcium decay. Now that Narrows it down!.. Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else - what else? Hyphenated surnames. Yes! That narrows it down to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius! Mickey Smith: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, great! We can write 'em a letter.”

Ifs Writing Made Planets Creatures Letters Doctors Breaths Yeah Rose Smell Ems Decay Pardon Like Something Fart Mickey Calcium Bad Breath Surnames

Author:Russell T Davies

“But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Dark One Thing Breaths Caught Caught Up Hurricanes Enough Time Time To Think Dark Thoughts

Author:Brian Falkner

“She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. “Sometimes I really want to”—a frustrated sound—“bite you!” He froze. “I might let you.” “I won’t do it if you’d enjoy it.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Might Enjoy Sound Breaths Teeth Bites Frustrated Sound Bites

Book:Kiss of Snow

Source: Kiss of Snow

“If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared.”

Ifs Should Faces Girl Decided Should Have Breaths Campaigns Pursue Unprepared Ifs And Indigo

Book:Play of Passion

Source: Play of Passion

“I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.”

Ifs Believe Facts I Believe Cases Pure Mouths Hundred Breaths Blame Ice Relate Tone Temper Display Magnificent Counting Snaps Interrupted Matched Muttering

Author:Deanna Raybourn

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“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 Said Space Steps Okay Breaths Closing Space Between

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance." I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening." Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed. "Is that...is that blue birthday cake?" He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one. :Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a lot to talk about.”

“What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.”

Ifs Thinking Want Heart Lying Technology Fire Information Breaths Warm Sparks Instruction Living Things Information Technology

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“.”

Ifs Should Persons Stills Eye Rooms Breaths Stuck Absurd Hips Staring Pairs Excess Jeans Dressings Good Person Abiding Slim Dressing Rooms

Book:Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.”

Ifs Dream Body Light Happens Stars Air Tomorrow Late Breaths Shining Warm Bones Dust Candle Lit Pillow Bouquets Flare

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

Ifs Heart Hard Happens Lying Felt Waiting Sides Hurt My Heart Kissing Mouths Hundred Breaths Rose Thread It Hurts Hurt Me Tugging

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”

Ifs Knows Pain Accepting Forever Willing Breaths Embrace Tolerance Tolerate Disregard Inconvenience Nagging

Author:Arthur Japin

“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Believe Two Mother Sound Window Breaths Smell Checks Climbs Bedroom Nasty Pulse Pupils Deceased Sound Mind Recently Deceased

Book:The Steel Remains

Source: The Steel Remains

“Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.”

“You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.”

Ifs Men Trying Years Wells Said War Country Enough Young Simple Half Talking Wonder Steps Six Decided Breaths Young Man Dozen Halt Diplomatic Deep Breath Involuntary

Author:John Flanagan

“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

“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?”

“He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Heart Whole Pain Next Waiting Sweet My Heart Mouths Breaths Whole World Pounds Intensity Sweat Blank Palms Curves Freeze

Book:As I Wake

Source: As I Wake

“He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.”

Ifs Feels Long Body Pain Fall Vision Rocks Skins Breaths Bones Flesh Shoulders Intense Sensations Lungs Crushed Blur Lurking Intense Pain

Author:Kami Garcia

“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Reason Forget Wonder Keys First Time Breaths Fingers Soldier Breathe Touched Triggers Clicks

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“She made a snorting noise, astonishingly human for a ghost. " I'ardly like to tell you this, Nephilim, but if you want a girl to 'ate you, there's easy enough ways of making it 'appen. You don't need my help with the poor thing." And with that, she vanished, spinning away into the mists among the graves. Will, looking after her, sighed. "Not for her," he said, under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, "for me..." and he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Humans Made Said Enough Helping Girl Easy Poor Cold Breaths Graves Ghost Noise Iron Gates Mist Spinning Nephilim

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant, joyous light. And it was going now, fading like the last breath of someone dying. She thought of Nate, bleeding to death in her arms. She had been powerless then, to help him. As she was now. She felt as if she were watching the life bleed out of Will Herondale, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.”

Ifs Helping Light Eye Lasts Felt Doors Dying Arms Breaths Brilliant His Eyes Locked Powerless Stairs Joyous Bleeding Fading Will Herondale Someone Dying

Author:Cassandra Clare

“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.”

“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”

Ifs Writing Breaths Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Author:Grace Paley

“Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.”

People Ifs Way Want Humans Persons Problem Human Beings Quality Failing Hair Worship Breaths Admire Settling Loser Savior Shopping Messy Messiah Worship You Bad Breath Messy Hair

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not die on me, ya understand? I can’t live without ya. Yer all I got, woman.’ Her breath caught in her lungs. ‘I don’t want to be here if you’re not.”

Ifs Want Said I Can Dies Heaven Pay Speech Concern Breaths Caught Debt Abandoned Lungs

Author:Jana Oliver

“At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”

Ifs Life Ends Left Breaths Just One

Author:Rumi

“I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten)”

Ifs Hurt Alive Breaths Got Your Back

Author:Kim Harrison

“Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?”

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