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Quotes About Sighed

Antinous sighed. 'The gods wanted to destroy us,' he said. 'That's everyone's excuse for behaving badly,' I said.
~ Margaret Atwood
The child didn't wake. She only nestled closer and sighed. So after all, Ezra could have put his coat beneath her head. He had missed an opportunity. It was like missing a train - or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly filled him.
~ Anne Tyler
Wonderful! said the Duke. We progress! We...? Progress? You said we? Progress? It seems I erred, Avon sighed. We remain at the same place.
~ Georgette Heyer
She sighed and leaned her cheek against his shoulder. How comfortable this is! she said. And so delightfully vulgar! Does plain Mr Dash put his arm round ladies in hackney coaches? When not in gaol he does, the Duke responded.
~ Georgette Heyer
Yes, Black Eye. I remember," said Snap. "He had a—" "Let me guess," Lucky interrupted. "A black patch of fur around one eye?" Snap cocked her head, perplexed. "How did you know?" Lucky sighed. "Never mind.
~ Erin Hunter
So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a … what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Irene sighed and rolled her eyes. "Just give her the flowers so we can be gone." She glanced at Van. "I grow tired of the company." Paul walked away and Van leaned against the wall, staring down Irene's cleavage. "You know, Irene," he said low, so only she could hear, "when you're mean to me like that…" "Yes?" "It makes me so horny.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Lord Francis sighed. "When you get back to Bedlam, Soph," he said, "ask them to reserve a room for me, will you? There's a good girl. I am going to be needing it soon." Sophia clucked her tongue and spurred her horse to a canter. Lord Francis shook his head and went after her.
~ Mary Balogh
But it's all too late...my virility's gone and marriage is impossible. My life has certainly been a failure. The best thing I can do,' sighed M. Folantin, 'is to go to bed and sleep.' And as he turned back the sheets and arranged his pillows, his soul offered up a thanksgiving in celebration of the tranquilising benefits of an obliging bed.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
At last she sighed. But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.
~ Gustave Flaubert
In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
~ William Shakespeare
Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Mother," said Ramona urgently. This time she stepped into the hall. "Unless we get a ladder (Go back to your room, Ramona) and break the window so we can unlock it," Mother continued, speaking with one sentence inside another, the way grown-ups so often did with Ramona around. "But Mother," insisted Ramona even more urgently. "I have to—" "Oh, dear, I might have known," sighed Mother.
~ Beverly Cleary
Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?
~ Franny Billingsley
Adolin sighed softly. "Of course. He's probably their leader now or something. Storming bridgeboy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Blushweaver sighed. "You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort...is there anything you don't avoid?" "Breakfast.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.
~ Herbie Brennan
At our last session – yesterday, in fact – the psychiatrist I've been seeing for the past two months asked, What method of contraception do you and Evelyn use? and I sighed before answering, my eyes fixed out the window on a skyscraper, then at the painting above the Turchin glass coffee table, a giant visual reproduction of a graphic equalizer by another artist, not Onica. Her job.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.
~ Kate Mosse
The historian sighed, glancing up at the mage. "Can you not repair it? What was your warren again, Kulp?" "Boat repair," the man answered.
~ Steven Erikson
Irene sighed. "So we have an incredibly glamorous female cat burglar who slinks around in a black leather cat-suit, who kills vampires in her spare time?
~ Genevieve Cogman
I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." "I promise." "You spoke a bit too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." "I'm a man of my word, and I promise that I won't hurt her.When I murder her, I'll do it real quick, so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He sighed over the problem: a furnace seldom needed in that climate seemed as confused about its workings as he was.
~ Toni Morrison
She sighed. "I wish I had their faith. Crimson is a Lannister color." "That thing's not crimson," Ser Brynden said. "Nor Tully red, the mud red of the river. That's blood up there, child, smeared across the sky." "Our blood or theirs?" "Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
~ George R.R. Martin