Between Breaths Quotes

#1. There are spaces between breaths, when one year becomes another or one second another. Between the clock's tick and the second's hand. There are all these spaces, these times. Like when a person dies. There has to be time between being there and not being there.

Anne C. George

#2. Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.

Steve Erickson

#3. I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words. Syllables strung together between breaths to fill uncomfortable silences.
Meaningless words.

Katie McGarry

#4. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.

Brooke Burgess

#5. It happens in the dark space between blinks, in the void between breaths.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#6. Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.

Angela Long

#7. I need to know why I'm supposed to go through the rest of my life without being able to talk to her. Hug her. Hear her laugh. Watch the sunset with her. Watch her play her violin. Kiss her forehead. Tell her I love her. Hear her say it back. Why? Why?!

Kim Holden

#8. Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths and the bite of Neil's fingernails against his palms, the scrape of teeth against his lower lip and the warm slide of a tongue against his.

Nora Sakavic

#9. I'm just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth.

B. Barmanbek

#10. I don't want you because I expect you to swoop in and rescue me and make everything all right.I don't want you because you're beautiful. None of that matters. you could never be a bad bargain to me, because ... you're you.
And I love you.

Zoe Marriott

#11. The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Louis O. Kelso

#12. Exactly,' the queen said. 'I've been where you are, and I know how difficult it is. You second guess the things you do; you second guess everything he does. You wonder over every conversation, trying to read into the breaths between sentences. It's exhausting.

Kiera Cass

#13. I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God ... or the Devil.

Peter Ustinov

#14. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Etty Hillesum

#15. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.

The Bhagavad Gita

#16. Life is beautiful. Death is astonishing.
And love is the just breaths taken in between

Michael Biondi

#17. Until nothing at all existed between them.
But shared breaths.
And unspoken promises.
Lies.
And unshakable truth.

Renee Ahdieh

#18. You're mine, Emma," he grated between ragged breaths. "Do you understand what I'm telling you? ... Do you understand me? Always."
... "It's you, Emma. It's always been you.

Kresley Cole

#19. Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

Jeff Olson

#20. Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

Manuela George-Izunwa

#21. I love you, Carrie," he whispered between shuddering breaths.
"Forever," I whispered.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#22. The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

Confucius

#23. He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms
when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow
he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

Susun Weed

#25. ...but if they go on strike you'll have to walk back. You'll have to swim back, you'll have to see Dad in his Speedos and you'll die.

Richard Rider

#26. I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

Shannyn Sossamon

#27. Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.

Holly Black

#28. Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#29. There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

Kevin Durand

#30. It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths "peace".

Veronica Roth

#31. The illusions of paternal love are perhaps no less poignant than those of the other kind; many daughters regard their fathers merely as the old men who leave their fortunes to them.

Marcel Proust

#32. I apologize for my body's reaction," he managed between deep breaths. "That's not how I usually tell a woman I find her attractive." Jake Dalton, Prisoner of Love

Cathy Skendrovich

#33. Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

Camila Alves

#34. The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#35. She wiggled until her nose and mouth found a pocket of air. After a few deep breaths, she realized her precious pocket of air was the crevice between his legs. Wonderful. She was doing heavy breathing on his crotch.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#36. You ... you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.

Richelle Mead