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Quotes About Breathless

The downside is that walking isn't quite enough to bring on a high unless it leaves you seriously breathless. The feeling-great part only really kicks in after an intense run at a pace where it's difficult to hold a conversation.
~ Caroline Williams
I keep thinking, well, this'll settle down. It's bound to level off and settle down. But it doesn't. Even when things are just going smooth and we're just....living, I can look at you, and I've got no breath left. Every minute with you, I'm alive. I never knew before there were pieces of me unborn, just waiting for you. I'm alive with you, Eve She sighted, touched his cheek. We'd better get out of here. We're getting mush all over the pool.
~ J.D. Robb
As the two of them came up against each other, Qhuinn's mouth dropped open. But not because he was shocked and not because he wanted in on the action. He simply couldn't breathe. It was as if his ribs had frozen along with his heart. No . . . no, goddamn it, no . . .
~ J.R. Ward
Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
She had to steel herself to meet his gaze. It took courage but she managed to raise her lashes to meet all that dark blue. It was like looking at a turbulent night sky. Every time she did, he robbed her of her ability to breathe.
~ Christine Feehan
smell of vomit and mold and decay. His lungs and nostrils ache. He can't breathe without gasping.
~ Kristin Hannah
Autumn leaves Poets breathless
~ Terri Guillemets
No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug
~ Jack London
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
~ Tessa Dare
The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again and chuckled till he cried.
~ Charles Dickens
I really think this must be a man!" was Mr. Lorry's breathless reflection, simultaneously with his coming against the wall.)
~ Charles Dickens
Why, my girl,' cried Mr Meagles, more breathless than before, 'how did you come over?
~ Charles Dickens
To be deeply loved by someone it changes you forever. 'That you can't breathe without them. And you feel your heart discovering something you didn't even know was possible.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.
~ James Patterson
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn't let go until I had to come up for air.
~ Priya Ardis
At times I have been rendered breathless by the impeccable chaoticism, the absolutely perfect nonsense of some spectacle taking place outside myself, or, on the other hand, some spectacle of equally senseless outrageousness taking place within me.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Talmud brought him science books, including a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science, "a work which I read with breathless attention," said Einstein.
~ Walter Isaacson
Her handwriting was sweeping, immaculate, breathless.
~ David Shields, "Satire," 2002
I crossed the room at a run, barreled through the door to take the stairs, and crashed into Ranger. We lost balance and rolled tangled together to the fourth-floor landing. We lay there for a moment, stunned and breathless. Ranger was flat on his back, and I was on top of him.
~ Janet Evanovich
Those who are too good for this world are adorning some other," Sri Yukteswar remarked. "So long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. He alone who has fully mastered the breathless state is free from cosmic imperatives. I will not fail to let you know when you have attained the final perfection.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
at the end of a breathless day when the air seemed so heavy and full of molten light, everyone sweated drops of gold instead of brine.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.
~ Dan Brown
Along the banks of the river Arno, I scramble, breathless Ã¢â'¬Â¦ turning left onto Via dei Castellani, making my way northward, huddling in the shadows of the Uffizi.
~ Dan Brown
Le duo Debbie-Simon marchait déjà très fort, mais alors complété par la rythmique Scott-Paul, j'imagine ce que ça a pu donner. Quelque chose comme une saturation de plaisir, qui vous coupe le souffle, vous fait pleurer de rire.
~ Christian Gailly