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“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures

“Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.”

Want Self Sometimes Wall Mouths Resolution Self Control Refrain Howl Foam

Book:The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.”

Wells Book Spiritual Effects Wall Taste Mouths Standing Vote Newspapers Recognition Autumn Cream Supremacy Prompts Berries Crisps Right Words Tarts

Author:Mark Twain

“The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.”

Wall Mouths Caught Tongue Wet Delicious Juice Ceilings Peaches Sticky Dripping

Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“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

“The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. ---Cole”

Rooms Sun Wall Mouths Thrown Yellow Curtains Dressers

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.”

I Can Fire Wall Mouths Bullets Register

Book:Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“I’ve heard the expression climbing walls, but I never thought I’d experience it, let alone like that,” she murmured, her mouth curling into what was probably a dreamy smile.”

Heard Expression Wall Mouths Climbing Dreamy

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“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

“Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.”

Ifs Made Wall Paper Mouths Pretending Plastic Movie Sets

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.”

Hands Faces Turns Sound Behinds Wall Mouths Ears Glasses Circles Loud Yelling Turn Me

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest