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Quotes About Twitching

The pain was shrill enough, but the idea of a finger of mine twitching about, lost in chicken-pecked dust, was more terrible.
~ Daniel Woodrell
C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)
~ Richard Preston
My eye starting to twitch and when my eye start to twitch, I get to shootin'.
~ Keisha Ervin
Blankenhagen sat twitching like a hen on a clutch of radioactive eggs.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Prendergast's face appeared even whiter, his veins even blacker, like a living corpse. He kept twitching, shaking. His eyes shot around him as if he was surrounded by invisible, swooping demons.
~ Rob Lloyd Jones
Suddenly his face wasn't twitching. It was smooth as a baby's and peaceful, but peaceful in the way that intensity can sometimes momentarily make a face look peaceful and pure.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Suddenly his face wasn't twitching. It was smooth as a baby's & peaceful, but peaceful in the way that intensity can sometimes momentarily make a face look peaceful & pure.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Face it. The pathology meter was twitching.
~ Lee Child
Poison? A slow death twitching and puking on the Arch Lector's lovely mosaic floor? Or just pitching onto my face on his table? But there was really no option but to grasp the glass and take a hearty swig. The
~ Joe Abercrombie
His face was contorted with rage, muscles twitching beneath his skin like a nest of rattlesnakes in a thin cotton sack.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
~ Larry Williams
Victor, back there in that basement, when the zombies were… were… moving around on those tables…. Twitching? And dead? You didn't even blink. This is nothing like those zombies. No shit. Because this time, you're scared—beyond scared. You're terrified. And whatever's got you scared? I don't want any part of it.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
If New York was a patient, it would be diagnosed with agrypnia excitata, a rare genetic condition characterized by insomnia, nervous energy, constant twitching, and dream enactment - an apt description of a city that never sleeps, a place where one comes to reinvent himself
~ Bill Hayes
And yet amid that tense godless calm the high bare boughs of all the trees in the yard were moving. They were twitching morbidly and spasmodically, clawing in convulsive and epileptic madness at the moonlit clouds; scratching impotently in the noxious air as if jerked by some allied and bodiless line of linkage with subterrene horrors writhing and struggling below the black roots.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
~ Donna Tartt
Voted worst in show the last two years got a refill on my tears another bottle of foam yellowed clear. Old man twitching on the train reminds us of mortality the snow everywhere reminds us of the rain.
~ Brendan Kelly
We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool.
~ Tim Howard
It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.
~ Laura Ruby
quarter glass of whiskey. His shoulders were up around his ears and his jaw was flexing, and I could see what remained of the muscles in his neck twitching. He was looking away from me and Nick at a group of men celebrating what seemed to be someone's return. A skinny, pockmarked shrimp of a guy at the center of the
~ James Patterson
It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")
~ Cornell Woolrich
She started awake at the sound of footsteps, stood more than a sword's length from every gesith and listened and listened and listened, until she thought her ears might start twitching like a cat's.
~ Nicola Griffith