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Quotes About Shiver

He yearned with a poet's yearning for the wide sky, the far-reaching vista of bridges, the tender and fluctuating lights on the water which seems to breathe with a life that can shiver and mourn, be comforted and rejoice.
~ George Eliot
even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully;
~ George Eliot
I had fun. That's what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Theo Fitzgerald," she said, still trying to shake off the night's uninvited visitor. "I mean, really!" The shake turned into yet another shiver, the sort usually inspired by a particularly wicked mouthful of very rich, supersmooth, utterly sinful ice cream.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell Book without Boo!
~ Stephen Colbert
Jack shivered. He wiped raindrops off his glasses.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive, and walking about.
~ Mary Shelley
arm more tightly, as much to quell her own fears as give support to Adele. When they finally reached the hall, Adele looked around swiftly and then she also shivered and drew her robe about her. It seemed
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Putting your feet in ice cold water? That's not fun.
~ Ben Howland
Galinda shivered, and was sure Madame Morrible felt it, knew it, but the Head never registered a sign of it. But then, my use of sorority - how ironic. Too witty. Give a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end.
~ Gregory Maguire
The face beside me was twisted almost unrecognisably for a moment, while through the whole body there passed a shivering motion—as if all the bones, organs, muscles, nerves, and glands were readjusting themselves to a radically different posture, set of stresses, and general personality.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.
~ Sylvia Plath
Now the sunset breezes shiver,And she's fading down the river,But in England's song foreverShe's the Fighting Téméraire.
~ Sir Henry Newbolt
I shiver in my isolation, and must face again and try to tame my loneliness.
~ May Sarton
They sat in silence for several minutes, Richard downing his glass of whiskey while Iris carefully sipped hers. She liked it, she decided. It was hot and cold at the same time. How else could one describe something that burned until it made you shiver?
~ Julia Quinn
Tim Johnson was advancing at a snail's pace, but he was not playing or sniffing at foliage: he seemed dedicated to one course and motivated by an invisible force that was inching him toward us. We could see him shiver like a horse shedding flies; his jaw opened and shut; he was alist, but he was being pulled gradually toward us.
~ Harper Lee
He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.
~ Stefan Zweig
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.
~ Sylvia Plath
President Trump proclaimed 'America First' from the inauguration stage. As an American Jew and daughter of immigrants, that slogan makes me shiver.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Tonight, the sea was a shiver of dark glass, harboring secrets untold in her depths while on her tranquil surface stars glittered like diamonds.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Shem shivered in the clammy heat of the city. It felt as if the picture had crossed time as well as distance to reach him.
~ Storm Constantine
While outside the window, the raindrops pitter pattered on leaves that shivered and sparkled, inside we made love for the first time!
~ Avijeet Das
Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when he wasn't sure where his next breath would come from. These horrifying times, he said, and his first emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that crosses your brain - then he was able to say, Okay,. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away.
~ Mitch Albom
His voice wasn't loud, but there was a quality to it that made Matt shiver even though he—for once—wasn't the one in trouble.
~ Nancy Farmer