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Quotes About Breathless

After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks....as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Sail on, O Ship of State!Sail on, O Union, strong and great!Humanity with all its fears,With all the hopes of future years,Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cu o cutezan?? nebun?, de parc? încerca s?-ÅŸi recapete astfel libertatea, îÅŸi l?s? trupul s? se topeasc? în al lui ÅŸi buzele lor se unir? într-un s?rut atât de intens, încât o l?s? f?r? aer.
~ Lesley Downer
She wanted to scream her rage to the uncaring universe, but she couldn't breathe.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
My mother would strike me off if I didn't say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like 'Network' at the National Theatre, my god it's important. You feel like you can't breathe.
~ Finty Williams
Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless... I've probably cried at work, but I'm limited with my crying: I'm the boss; I'm not really allowed to cry at work.
~ Stella McCartney
W-what was that?" Rather than responding, he lifted a brow, schooling his features into a calmness that hid the violent need still coursing through his body. "I-I mean I know what it was," she went on in a breathless voice that made shivers run down his spine. "But why? Why did you k-kiss me?" She looked utterly and completely bewildered. "Because, my sweet," he drawled in a smooth tone, "you looked as if you needed to be.
~ Unknown
stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned
~ Winston Graham
The sea, the sea's swell, silent and breathless.
~ Clarice Lispector
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
~ Hillary Clinton
His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.
~ Holly Black
He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can barely breathe.
~ Holly Black
Lo odio più di chiunque altro. Lo odio talmente tanto che qualche volta, quando lo guardo, mi manca il respiro.
~ Holly Black
In the right situation, highly formalized, high-suction ass-kissing not only comes all too naturally to me, it makes me breathless with a feeling of penitential power.
~ David Rakoff
Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.
~ Eric Bledsoe
genuinely, and said, "This is exactly what I needed." He asked if something was wrong and it all came out in one breathless stream. She thought Leo was on a bender. Or that he'd skipped town. She told him about the accident, about
~ Unknown
Aún. La tentadora promesa incrustada en esa palabra le cortó el aliento.
~ Lisa Kleypas
true love is felonious… You take someone's breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
~ Jodi Picoult
I want that amazing Christmas kiss. You know, the one where you're under the mistletoe, not even realizing it, and all the sudden he comes up and cups your face in his hand and kisses you, and his kiss leaves you completely breathless? Yeah, that one.
~ Unknown
Before me floats an image, man or shade, Shade more than man, more image than a shade; For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth May unwind the winding path; A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; ("Byzantium")
~ W.B. Yeats
Rescue operation, " he says, breathless. "Saved Barbie from drowning.
~ Kelley York, Made of Stars
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
~ Henry James
Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb, the "C" so faded that it was scarcely visible. He had not noticed it or thought of it in years, and felt suddenly as though there was not air enough to breathe.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Then he fell, badly, tumbling over rocks into a small hollow, bruising himself and knocking out all his wind. The fog had billowed over him, marching past, urgent in its hurry to engulf things, as he lay stunned and breathless in the bottom of his small declivity. Then he began to hear the rocks murmur all around him, and he'd crawled, then run, as fast as he could, screaming. Fell again, got up and went on running.
~ Diana Gabaldon