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Quotes About Swallowed

Fresh tobacco. Black currants. God, it was so good. She kept it in her mouth for a count of ten before she swallowed. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine. She smelled wet hay from a tumbledown field in Tuscany in the early morning, after the sky turned light, but before the sun burned off the dew.
~ Lev Grossman
I has a last look at the sea, which was rumpled and agitated, a thick muscle that would hold on tight to everything it swallowed.
~ Lily King
I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also chew me up and spit me out. I felt used.
~ Lionel Shriver
Want to see the collection of inhaled and swallowed objects?" she asked. "You're kidding, right?" She made her eyes wide. "Oh, I never kid about inhaled and swallowed objects.
~ Jennifer Weiner
The tiger has swallowed a black sun. In his cold cage he carries it still. Black flames flicker through his fur. Black rays roar from the centers of his eyes.
~ Valerie Worth
The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it.
~ Craig Silvey
She swallowed it. So bitter. "Vile," she said. "Vile." "I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know." "Trust you," she said. "Hah." "Clearly you are not dying." "No. Devil won't take me." The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe.
~ Loretta Chase
I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.
~ Peter Breggin
And, ah, who are you? What Horseman, I mean." Thanatos swung around. "Death." Cara swallowed. Audibly. "As in, the Grim Reaper?" He snorted. "That poser.
~ Larissa Ione
transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn't turn round. She knew she should let it go, but it was too late. She'd chewed the insult over, torn it apart and swallowed it. The insult was part of her now.
~ Louise Penny
In March 2014, an Australian python swallowed a chihuahua and found itself chained to a kennel.
~ John Lloyd
I hummed a little and listened to the sound being swallowed by the air.
~ Madeline Miller
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls—the demons' pen.
~ Mo Yan
Are you all right?' 'It's okay,' he says, 'I think I just swallowed some dark.' He has the notion that darkness is a substance. It will make you choke if you swallow too much in one go. I could have put him straight with some prosaic account of the coughing reflex being triggered by the shock of the cold air rather than a mouthful of darkness, but I didn't I stashed away the treasured image and left him with the version of reality fashioned by his infant brain.
~ Unknown
swallowed. My ears felt as if
~ Paula McLain
If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.
~ Peter Heller
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
~ Hosea 8:8