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Quotes About Torturous

There was nothing more vicious than a teenage girl. Maybe it was because boys were more capable of settling an argument with their fists, but girls at this age were much more conniving and torturous than anyone wanted to believe.
~ Karin Slaughter
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
~ Yul Vazquez
Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
~ David Rakoff
I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
~ Brian Celio
Brock, would be leaving their phones at home. Which sounded like a particularly torturous circle of hell.
~ Sara Shepard
I began to experience, over the course of the next three months, full-blown insomnia. I'm not talking about the romantic kind, not the sweet sleeplessness one has when one is in love, anxiously awaiting the morn so one can rendezvous with a lover in an illicit gazebo. No, this was the torturous, clammy kind, when one's pillow slowly takes on the properties of a block of wood and one's sheets, the air of the Everglades.
~ Marisha Pessl
such a brutal way of killing someone that it gave birth to the word "excruciating.
~ Shane Claiborne
The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.
~ Miriam Toews
Yvonne started humming the QuickGo jingle, one of those torturous tunes that enters through the ear canal and proceeds to ricochet around the skull in search of an escape route it will never find.
~ Harlan Coben
The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.
~ Melissa Andrea, Flutter
I was in a bank meeting in London once that was so torturous, I had a flash of inspiration for another client.
~ David Droga
I knew Reagan was responsible for releasing Merle Haggard from San Quentin," I said. "Wasn't Haggard in prison for murder?" "Yes," I answered. "I am aware that mind control was being used in San Quentin at the time. I wonder if it was used on Haggard, or if he simply became privy to it. Personally, I know Haggard2 as a torturous abuser who openly perpetuates mind control.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible7 is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God.
~ Thomas Paine