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“Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.”

Knows Men Should Looks Heart Might Happens Fall Tears Strange My Heart Mouths Falling In Love Teeth These Days Hostile Rotten Prudent Wrenches

Book:Christmas Holiday

Source: Christmas Holiday

“I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.”

Knows Names Mom Dad Safe Mouths My Mom Mom And Dad

Author:David Ebershoff

“I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.”

Knows Mean Care Mouths Don't Care I Don't Care Jewels

Book:Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

“I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.”

Ifs Knows Men Years Looks Ends Stories Hands Moving Winning Causes Behinds Figures Cold Conflict Mouths Charity Breasts Wet Very Happy Altars Thighs

Author:Graham Greene

“Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.”

Knows World Might Boys Records Air Mouths Bases Sticks Tongue Lakes

Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.”

Thinking Knows Giving Mind Said Wish Brain Pieces Please Mouths Teeth Wish You Of My Mind Tissues Claire

Book:Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires

“She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

Knows Moments Might Wanted Speak Felt Secret Events Mouths Shots Impulse Panic Like Something Rare Moments

Book:Prep: a novel

Source: Prep: a novel

“The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?”

Knows Said Bigs Earth Mother Father Laughing Mouths Rounds Lips Caught Do You Know Growling

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Believe Shows Mouths Anxious

Author:Audre Lorde

“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?”

Ifs Knows Long Doe Self Matter Enough Past Reading Lost Source Mouths Rivers Connections Miles Does It Matter Old Self

Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

“Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?" I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed. Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts," Ranger said. My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Littles Said I Can Helping Might Given Five Minutes Fronts Needed Mouths Desert Sugar Five Minutes Given Up Babe Withdrawal Rangers Doughnut Cupcakes

Author:Janet Evanovich

“...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.”

Source: Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara

“"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. "I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad.”

Knows Want Trying Made Said Two Hands Together Used Girl Asks Waiting Wonder Mouths Tables Lays Excited Planning Ceilings Two Days So Sad Denver

Author:Jack Kerouac

“This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.”

Knows Men Want Said Done Father Forever Happened Worst Possibility Tears Mouths Historical Leaving Throat Schemes I Want You Worst Things Another Man Father Leaving

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.”

Knows Wells Sound Answers Heard Shapes Mouths Police Passing Passings Pathetic Labs Howl Sirens Marley Answering The Call

Author:John Grogan

“They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.”

Knows Humans Sound Voice Pieces Heard Color Mouths Harmony Hearing Rainbow Fabric Woven Unison

Author:Anita Diament

“My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.”

Knows Looks Long Hands Eye Together Mother Three Speak Wish Watches Tears Color Arms Mouths My Family My Sister Flash Grey Snapshots Sharpening Polaroids Bright Colors

Author:Amy Tan

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

Knows Said Different Names Love You Safe Mouths Love Someone Say I Love You When You Love Someone Handle With Care

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.”

Knows Heart Beautiful Calling Mouths My Friends Rose Fingers Holes Knees Shirts Dry Hello Rip Fingertips Bowling Heart Pounding Almost There

Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

Knows Long Hands Lasts Faces Turns Know How Missing Taste Letting Go Kissing Mouths Warm Tongue Cups Breathing Honey Kiss Me Jellicoe Road

Author:Melina Marchetta

“I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but I've found it really useful -" "Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," said Harry quietly. "It saved my life last June." Smith opened his mouth stupidly. The rest of the room was very quiet. "But if you think it's beneath you, you can leave.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Firsts Said Helping Eye Lasts Used Found Rooms Arms Please Quiet Mouths Saved His Eyes Charm Rolling June Disarming Folding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know he loves me, too. But it's different." Alice opened her mouth, but nothing came out at first. "He loved me once. But I think that part is over," she said slowly. "No, it's not. It hasn't even begun." Riley took Alice's bare foot in her hand and squeezed it. "I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first."”

Thinking Knows Firsts Said Different Hands Remember Feet Share Minutes Quiet Mouths Be Good My Sister Blanket I Loved You Bare Feet Always Loved You

Author:Ann Brashares

“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”

Source: Selected poems

“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.”

Knows Said Ideas Different Girl Mouths Different Ideas

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Littles Moments Would Be House Memories Wonder Wall Mouths Boxes Dust Bags Buried Catching Textbooks Packing

Book:If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”

Knows Should Guy Interesting Pay Behinds Brain Creative Mouths Leaving Dear Call Me Gears Behind You

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once." She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't. "I know I hurt you." Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't. "I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't". He slid the cloth over her arms. "If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Ends Matter Enough Wanted Left Hurt Arms Mouths Forgotten Edges Arguing Shoulders Setting Settings You Again Tubs I Hurt You

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.”

Knows Want Looks Said Eye Wanted Passion House Results Mistake Like You Please Mouths Glasses Cheeks Her Eyes Sparkle Amanda Swollen

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“Magnus looked at her meditatively. 'I think,' he said, 'there isn't much that Jace wouldn't do for you, if you asked him.' Clary opened her mouth and then shut it again. She thought of the way Magnus had always seemed to know how Alec felt about Jace, how Simon felt about her. Her feelings for Jace must be written on her face even now, and Magnus was an expert reader. She glanced away.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Feelings Faces Felt Know How Written Reader Mouths Experts Jace

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.”

“I kiss her mouth and I know... for everything there is a word... for everything but this.”

Knows Kissing Mouths

Author:Ryan Adams

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

Thinking Knows Trying Used Sound Enemy Please Mouths Flying Pity Used To Be Meat Vengeance Arrows Skulls Hunk

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth.”

Knows Looks Said Hands Hours Know How Mouths Shots Miles Excellent Do You Know Impressed Pulling Seventies Fangs Tagged Clipboards

Author:James Patterson

“C’mon, sweetie, you can say it. (Delphine) (She moved his mouth playfully with her hands.) You don’t suck, Delphine. I…you. C’mon, Jericho. I only bite in the bedroom. You can do this. I know you’re not really mute. (Delphine)”

Knows Hands Can Do Mouths Moved Bites Bedroom Mute Jericho

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?" "Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now.”

Knows Littles Two Hurt Mines Bears Mouths Goldilocks

Book:Magic Bleeds

Source: Magic Bleeds

“I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.”

People Knows Want Kind Persons Listening Fit Mouths

Book:The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre

Source: The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre

“When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.”

“Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.”

Knows Said Stills Ideas Doubt Mouths Horse Likes No Doubt

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

“Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. "How does he always get food stuck to him?" I asked Morelli. "I don't know," Morelli said. "It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure." -Morelli And Stephanie”

Thinking Knows Doe Said Fall Stuff Mystery Dog Mouths Stuck Not Sure Bob

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to be?”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts May Art Reason Might Eye Mouths First Time Related Museums Elderly Profane Profanity Vernacular

Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.”

Ifs Knows Mother Saws Paper Mouths Blow Trials Like Her Sneer

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?”

People Knows Want Mean Four Fit Normal Mass Smart Mouths Okay Who I Am Like Me Hanging Out Compliment Nerd Geek Fringe Dork

Author:Susane Colasanti

“One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.”

Knows Rooms Mouths Wine Lips Corners Thoughtful Delicate Crooked Bisexual Quirks

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Long Stills Hands Girl Asks Break Cases Missing Mouths My Friends Bread Exit That Girl Quietness

Book:I Am the Messenger

Source: I Am the Messenger

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

People Knows Ability Secret Mouths

Book:Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that." "You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." "Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.”

Thinking Knows Should Believe Heart Said Faces Interest Hair Mouths Ears Statements Stopping Unequivocal

Author:Josh Lanyon

“Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.”

Thinking Knows Hands Eye Night Choices Black My Own Common Sun Grace Hair Kissing Paper Mouths Fairs Argument Cat Skins Rose Common Sense Curse Muscles Sensible Stolen Petals Ivory Rose Petals

Author:Tamora Pierce

“He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”

Thinking Knows Way Has Beens Stills I Can Used Fighting Voice Half Sun Air Drug Late Mouths Clouds Corners Critical Handle Gentle Too Late Balanced Think Of You Eclipse

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Dream Happens Fall Sides Wonder Darkness Forever Wall Cold Mouths Scared Sensations Scream Ceilings

Book:The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls

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