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Quotes About Trembling

You said it so innocently, so matter-of-factly, that it robbed us of our breath. And while we recovered to offer the standard adult response, that love doesn't care about sickness or health, inside we were trembling, because we saw in you something, with your disease, that we were terrified of seeing in ourselves. Acceptance.
~ Mitch Albom
She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
~ Nancy Farmer
temblorosa de frío y de verdad, como una madre (de Solaris)
~ Nancy Morejón
A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling. Beneath the surface, lies terror.
~ Thomas Pynchon
She waited, guttering with a small meek defiance, standing at the window and trembling, moonlight from a high angle pouring over her naked back, casting on it shadows of her shoulder blades, like healed stumps of wings ritually amputated once long ago, for some transgression of the Angels' Code.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The very…thought of him…is making me shake!
~ Katsura Hoshino
They seemed to fall forever. Geryon retained an iron-edged grip on the trembling Kadence, her hair whipping around them like angry silk ribbons. She didn't scream something he'd expected, but she did turn and wind her legs around him, something he had not.
~ Gena Showalter
Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The rim of the cup shuddered. Her fingers were shaking.
~ Ilona Andrews
Their hands touched, their knees touched. They were both trembling.
~ Iris Murdoch
Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside me and leaves me trembling. Other times I wake up sweating with images in my head, as vivid as if they were real. In the dream I see myself running naked, screaming voicelessly, in a labyrinth of narrow alleys that coil like serpents, buildings with blank doors and windows, not a soul to ask for help, my body burning, my feet bleeding, bile in my mouth, all alone.
~ Isabel Allende
De repente, las rodillas de Georgie empezaron a temblar. A temblar de verdad. Un temblor de terremoto, sólo que aquel terremoto se estaba produciendo en su interior. Se había enamorado de él.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I felt such desire for him, such murderous and vengeful desire, that I was trembling.
~ Susanna Moore
Love is trembling happiness.
~ Khalil Gibran
In the neighborhood she was called the Lark. People like figurative names and were happy to give a nickname to this child, no larger than a bird, trembling, frightened, and shivering, first to wake every morning in the house and the village, always in the street or in the fields before dawn. Except that the poor lark never sang.
~ Victor Hugo
gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on the wing of a butterfly.
~ Victor Hugo
I can touch you," she marveled, and she couldn't--or at least didn't--resist the urge to further prove it by sliding her palm over the hot-smooth terrain of his chest until she felt as if she were holding his heartbeat in her hand. "As much as you want," he said, and there was a trembling in him, but it wasn't from pain.
~ Laini Taylor
Then from anguish, wishing to cry out and trembling, eyes full of doleful tears, I tore myself from sleep. But in my mind remained his vivid image. And in the uncertain ray of sunshine, I believed I saw him still.
~ Giacomo Leopardi The Dream
Ha bisogno di qualche ristoro il mio buio cuore disperso Negli incastri fangosi dei sassi come un'erba di questa contrada vuol tremare piano alla luce
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night.
~ James Baldwin
I was trembling. I thought, if I do not open the door at once and get out of here, I am lost… everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.
~ James Baldwin
Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
~ Ja Rule
She was trembling, and so was he. Like the first time, he thought. For her. For him. And just as terrifying and tremendous. The late winter sun was a white wash of light through the windows. In the silence of the house he could hear every catch of her breath. When he skimmed his fingers lightly over her, she was all soft skin and quivers. Smooth. Warm. Beautiful.
~ Nora Roberts
Hoc dicens altaria ad ipsa trementem traxit et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati, implicuitque comam laeva, dextraque coruscum extulit, ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem.
~ Virgil