Top 100 Barely There Quotes

#1. It was bad enough that he couldn't seem to get the image of her out of his mind, He didn't need to add et skin and a barely there towel to the gallery.

Tiffany Snow

Barely There Quotes #408657
#2. Matt?"
"Yeah?"
A barely there sigh escaped her lips. "I really want to sleep with you, but ... "
"Damn," he said. "That was a great sentence right up to the 'but'."
-Amy and Matt

Jill Shalvis

Barely There Quotes #437900
#3. I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I'll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I'll turn into a shadowy static that's barely there, if you just listen hard enough.

Jasmine Warga

Barely There Quotes #955362
#4. You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward.
Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Barely There Quotes #1101075
#5. Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

David James Duncan

Barely There Quotes #1293192
#6. Then she moved backwards, deeper into the shadow. All I could see was that she was barely there, like something you almost recall: the Pledge of Allegiance, your daddy's real name.

Daniel Woodrell

Barely There Quotes #1542071
#7. It (scent) was barely there at all, but in the hint of its existence it was as fragile as night blossoms - not too sweet but just enough, like the dew on a requiem bud in the palest hour of dawn.

Laini Taylor

Barely There Quotes #1599444
#8. Don't panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. "You mean you can feel happy or sad or - "
"Desire." A barely-there smile.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Barely There Quotes #1722026
#9. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp

Barely There Quotes #18579
#10. Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to shove her face under his t-shirt and eat whatever she found there.

Charlotte Stein

Barely There Quotes #31676
#11. Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Brian Clough

Barely There Quotes #37611
#12. It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Barely There Quotes #44997
#13. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

Robert Thurman

Barely There Quotes #54005
#14. When he speaks into my hair, it is barely a whisper. 'Willow, it's never too late. And there's always a way to begin again.

Autumn Doughton

Barely There Quotes #76427
#15. So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

Billy Collins

Barely There Quotes #81902
#16. The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

Haruki Murakami

Barely There Quotes #91340
#17. The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There

Cheryl Strayed

Barely There Quotes #107458
#18. There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Michael Palin

Barely There Quotes #119335
#19. M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?
J: He's just a fiend. We barely know each other.
M: Nice, The stuff dreams are made of.

Kelly Bingham

Barely There Quotes #174174
#20. There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

H.M. Tomlinson

Barely There Quotes #174666
#21. There was ... uh, in my book, you know," her legs moved against his and she finished so low he barely heard her, "a really good sex scene.

Kristen Ashley

Barely There Quotes #191907
#22. There's nothing to try, Ethan. It's over. It's too late. She barely whispered, but it felt like she was shouting.

Kami Garcia

Barely There Quotes #212702
#23. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed ... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Barely There Quotes #223268
#24. She's upset."
"Screaming upset? or crying upset?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes. There's a difference between being mad at a guy and being a teary mess over him. For example: Deanna is mad and can plot your destruction; I was a teary mess and could barely crawl out of bed every day.

Sylvia Day

Barely There Quotes #225586
#25. I changed my mind. I don't want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker."
"There are people who do that," Duff said. He'd barely sipped his rum.
"Really? What do you call them?"
"Alcoholics.

Libba Bray

Barely There Quotes #226502
#26. There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

Nicola Griffith

Barely There Quotes #247071
#27. Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

Barely There Quotes #263041
#28. There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

Andy Milonakis

Barely There Quotes #268577
#29. You deserve to know that I love you, more than I ever intended to, more than I ever thought I could love someone whom I admittedly barely know. It's the dumbest love there is, love that doesn't come back
to you.

Pamela Ribon

Barely There Quotes #270626
#30. Why are you so nice to me? You barely know me."
A soft smile played on his lips, "But I like what I know so far. And I am excited for what else there is to find out.

Rachel Higginson

Barely There Quotes #276427
#31. There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

Michael Ondaatje

Barely There Quotes #283498
#32. I won't ask you to stay," he said. Eleanor could barely look at him althought there was nothing more she wanted to do than memorize every line and angle of his face. "But I want to."

She inhaled sharply and forced a smile.

"I won't say 'yes' if you do ask...but I want to.

Tiffany Reisz

Barely There Quotes #285644
#33. There's never been a moment," he barely said, "when I didn't recognize you.

Rainbow Rowell

Barely There Quotes #294650
#34. Lils, you've barely even planned Sneak yet. Give it time. He'll get there."
"He did ask me out on Saturday."
"OMG, you two are totally getting married and having a litter of babies. Ooh, what if that's literally true?"
-Scout and Lily about werewolf Jason

Chloe Neill

Barely There Quotes #296181
#35. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

Jeanette Winterson

Barely There Quotes #325235
#36. A city lay out there, that I had barely observed or cared about. I wanted it - life, people. I wanted to see it, feel its rush through my blood. No boundaries, no limits to what I might encounter or do.

Sarah J. Maas

Barely There Quotes #344984
#37. Horses aren't native to Australia. They are exotic, first brought there by European settlers barely more than two centuries ago. Hendra is probably an old virus, according to the runic evidence of its genome, as read by molecular evolutionists.

David Quammen

Barely There Quotes #345673
#38. I invent her, then, as a woman emerging from the sea.
A tall man meets here on the black sand.
You've come back, he says.
Can barely see her in the sea-light.
They make love there, and become horses.
As night grows black they become weeds

Maggie Nelson

Barely There Quotes #351510
#39. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Ann Packer

Barely There Quotes #358779
#40. There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Barely There Quotes #361019
#41. It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

Karen Morley

Barely There Quotes #368486
#42. There are no voice pipes or telegraphs, as Titanic had, and barely any brass, but so many beeps and screens that I wonder if ships will soon be able to drive themselves.

Rose George

Barely There Quotes #373360
#43. There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

Nicholas Sparks

Barely There Quotes #404735
#44. There had been silent tears and ones that barely leaked out. There were tears that heaved from her in great sobs. They all slipped through my fingers when I tried to catch them, and they fell around her in oceans.

Amy Zhang

Barely There Quotes #435009
#45. My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was that we weren't going to crash into anyone, because barely any fucker lived there.

Frankie Boyle

Barely There Quotes #440024
#46. The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

Barely There Quotes #441377
#47. I'm not really qualified to install a security system," said Dimitri.
"Really? There's something you can't do?" Adrian's voice was so soft that I could barely hear him, and he was sitting right next to me.

Richelle Mead

Barely There Quotes #446673
#48. Why you in a dark hole, Astrid? Did you fall? (Simi) We're hiding Simi. (Astrid) Hiding? From what? (Simi) Thanatos. (Astrid) Pfft. Why you hiding from that loser? He wouldn't even make good barbecue. Barely take the edge off my peckishness. Hmmm ... How come there's no food here? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Barely There Quotes #449286
#49. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.

Nina LaCour

Barely There Quotes #457482
#50. Was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now

Cheryl Strayed

Barely There Quotes #460331
#51. Only what?" I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. "Only ... more human." And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. "Get out," I said.

Richelle Mead

Barely There Quotes #471491
#52. All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.

Deborah Smith

Barely There Quotes #474274
#53. She crawled," Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. "She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren't for the two subs in the pack, I'd be on the bottom. And she wouldn't stand up in my presence for guilt.

Patricia Briggs

Barely There Quotes #498507
#54. Why should I bother defending myself," Nesta said with lethal cold, "to a male who is so puffed up on his own sense of importance there's barely enough space in the room for his enormous head?

Sarah J. Maas

Barely There Quotes #509476
#55. Then again, my head is usually always inappropriate. It's like a Pinterest page of hot, barely dressed men 24/7 up in there.

Karina Halle

Barely There Quotes #517980
#56. I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

Chelsea Peretti

Barely There Quotes #553203
#57. Somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

Graham McNamee

Barely There Quotes #556578
#58. In the U.S. Constitution there was a category of creatures called three-fifth humans - the enslaved population. They weren't considered persons. And in fact women were barely considered persons, so they didn't have rights.

Noam Chomsky

Barely There Quotes #556624
#59. There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

Robin Hoyle

Barely There Quotes #606696
#60. The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right

Megan Shepherd

Barely There Quotes #622360
#61. There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you.

Avril Lavigne

Barely There Quotes #630116
#62. There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

Moby

Barely There Quotes #642449
#63. I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Barely There Quotes #683662
#64. This is all for the sake of the House, he told himself, but behind his resolve he sensed, indistinctly, a certain effort at self-vindication, and the awareness hovered there like a barely perceptible halo around the moon.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Barely There Quotes #683714
#65. There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

Laurence Equilbey

Barely There Quotes #745259
#66. Nice try, sweetheart, but there's no way you're leaving me alone with a barely aware drunk chick. Who knows what she'll accused me of later? This time tomorrow, the cops could show up at my door, and before you know it, I'm rocking an orange jumpsuit, singing "Summer Loving" with a guy named Snake.

Candace Vianna

Barely There Quotes #788600
#67. There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.

Chad Urmston

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#68. I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan . I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.

Amitabh Bachchan

Barely There Quotes #806880
#69. I'd missed it - the way the outback lit up in dying light. The stillness, the color. Out there, a quiet moment to yourself could feel like forever, but at the same time you were reminded that your entire life so far was barely a blink.

Vikki Wakefield

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#70. My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

Clint Eastwood

Barely There Quotes #828629
#71. I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival.

Susan Ee

Barely There Quotes #838363
#72. The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Noreena Hertz

Barely There Quotes #843593
#73. There is something about guitars - maybe something magical - when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

John Fahey

Barely There Quotes #855180
#74. I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

Bruce Jenner

Barely There Quotes #856060
#75. We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.

Sidney Blumenthal

Barely There Quotes #878198
#76. There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

Robin Marantz Henig

Barely There Quotes #895075
#77. I know it hurts. I know it hurts so bad you can barely breathe sometimes. I know because I've been there. Please don't leave us. I promise life can be good, and we need you too much.

Meredith Russo

Barely There Quotes #902076
#78. He turned back, and there was an odd light in his eyes. "Did I ever tell you that I can't live without you?" he said.
"No," she said. "You can tell me about it when we survive." She could barely breathe, death was eating its way toward her, and she wanted to laugh out loud with the joy of it.

Anne Stuart

Barely There Quotes #947988
#79. In college, there aren't many guys like that, and why would there be? When girls just give it away for nothing? I mean, I can understand why you'd sleep with someone if you love them, but if you barely know them? What's the point? It just cheapens it.

Nicholas Sparks

Barely There Quotes #952167
#80. There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Edgar Degas

Barely There Quotes #953330
#81. It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

Henry A. Kissinger

Barely There Quotes #962548
#82. When I was born, the Internet was barely two years old. It was the preserve of academics, used to connect dozens rather than billions of users. There weren't many who predicted it would transform our world.

George Osborne

Barely There Quotes #973502
#83. There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time.

Megan Hart

Barely There Quotes #980072
#84. There were several packages waiting for me at the post office
and I only barely squealed. They were advanced reader copies
from other bloggers passing them along for review. And I was,
like, whatever. Sure evidence I was coming down with mad cow
disease.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Barely There Quotes #989637
#85. I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.

Adrianne Palicki

Barely There Quotes #993743
#86. Trust me."
This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly
untrustworthy about him ... .
He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice
time.

Kresley Cole

Barely There Quotes #994698
#87. I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire

Barely There Quotes #1002418
#88. Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Nikolai Gogol

Barely There Quotes #1049989
#89. There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

Marlon James

Barely There Quotes #1070738
#90. The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

Elisabeth Moss

Barely There Quotes #1074528
#91. I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

Kate Del Castillo

Barely There Quotes #1076441
#92. For a moment, Meg couldn't think, could barely breathe as a drawing of a cow with arrows pointing to the various cuts of meat popped into her head. Then she imagined a drawing of a human with the same kinds of arrows. Could there be a sign like that in the butcher shop?

Anne Bishop

Barely There Quotes #1096597
#93. When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

Becca Fitzpatrick

Barely There Quotes #1120195
#94. There are moments in time that can never be understood, at least not fully. Times we only read about in history books, or see in movies, barely a re-creation of the truth. But it takes more than reading about it or putting on the costumes to understand what history really means.

Leslie Tall Manning

Barely There Quotes #1133291
#95. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.

Jesse Andrews

Barely There Quotes #1144889
#96. Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Herbert Gold

Barely There Quotes #1164225
#97. There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

Stephen King

Barely There Quotes #1175062
#98. Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Moshe Safdie

Barely There Quotes #1213829
#99. Between his skin and hers, there was the smallest of spaces, barely enough for air, for this slick of sweat now chilling. Even still, a third person, their marriage, had slid in.

Lauren Groff

Barely There Quotes #1217766
#100. There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with my life intact, but just barely, and I won't be returning anytime soon. My loyalty - and my heart - belongs to another queen now.

Julie Kagawa

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