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Quotes About Restraint

His expression was concerned and protective, and I felt such an overwhelming need of him and love for him that I was about to cry. I held it back.
~ Anne Rice
What was it like to be bound in her chains and close to her?
~ Anne Rice
Luego, estando yo a punto de dormirme, la así con fuerza por la muñeca. —Ni se te ocurra marcharte de aquí sin decirme nada —le dije. —Átame a las columnas y entonces no podré irme —me susurró al oído.
~ Anne Rice
This is a gun," he said quietly, "and it's loaded. Move and I shoot. You're not allowed out of your seat, and neither is he.
~ Anne Tyler
A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
~ Annie Barrows
I could very calmly go wild.
~ Annie Dillard
She was so beautiful I had to move away.
~ Sebastian Faulks
A young couple who love each other but who can't be together as they long to be because someone is preventing it.4
~ Sei Sh?nagon
Contenerse es casi como robar.» Neil Young
~ Seth Godin
come not between the dragon and his wrath
~ Shakespeare , William
There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them.
~ Shana Abé
when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Fear did make people cautious; rage such as this was dangerous, was all too apt to lead to disaster
~ Sharon Kay Penman
What's the harm in letting him have his fling?" he remarked of one of the worst of these; "If he did not pitch into me, he would into some poor fellow he might hurt
~ Shelby Foote
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
~ Sherman Alexie
But whenever I started in on my crazy theories, Norma would put her finger to my lips really gently. Junior, she would say with gentleness and patience. Shut the fuck up. Norma always was a genius with words.
~ Sherman Alexie
swore he told us not to slow dance with our skeletons.
~ Sherman Alexie
Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.
~ Sherman Alexie
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
still waters run deep. ~Tabitha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what do you do? Really? (Kat) Nothing. Really. It's boring as hell. Artemis won't allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't move, and breathe only if you have to. (Caleb)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Okay, gimmi a kiss and I'll go. (Simi) Not in front of the Hunter, Simi. (Acheron) The Simi wants a kiss, akri. I'll wait all century. You know I will. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon