Quotes About Embrace

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Paper reassures me, its touch. It's what you respect.

I've always... cherished you

This surely is the way to be, I thought to myself, that one should take hold of those one loves most and simply look into their eyes for a long time, or perhaps, for eternity.

knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call's eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them — Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater.

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.

Corny nodded, but when he moved to put the key in the ignition, Luis's hand stopped him. When he turned, their mouths met. "I'm sorry... that I've been," Luis said in between kisses,"distracted... by everything. Is it morbid... that I'm talking...?" Corny murmured something that he hoped sounded like agreement as Luis's fingers dug into his hips, pushing him up so they could crush their bodies closer together.

I don't care. I run into his arms. Cardan's fingers dig into my back. [...] But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

all I want to do is walk in to his arms. I want to drown my worries in his embrace. I want him to say something totally unlike himself, about things being okay. 'Nice dress,' he says instead.

Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.

But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

It was good to be hugged. Even by a monster

Debo dejar de fantasear sobre huir hacia otra vida, y tratar de averiguar como vivir la que ya tengo. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.

Desire hits me like a kick to the stomach. It's like fighting, except what we're fighting for is to crawl inside each other's skin.

it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.