Breastbone Quotes

#1. Over nine whole acres while a huge, horrendous Vulture puddles forever with hooked beak In his liver and entrails teeming with raw pain. It burrows deep below the breastbone, feeding And foraging without respite, for the gnawed-at Gut and gutstrings keep renewing.

Virgil

#2. They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.

Anthony Doerr

#3. God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.

James Agee

#4. Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

Brad Willis

#5. He looked the way I felt around Delia: as if a second sun was growing underneath my breastbone, a secret I could barely conceal.

Jodi Picoult

#6. There's more than one way to share pleasure."
She was quiet for a long moment. "How many ways?"
He rolled onto his side to face her, skimming a single finger from her breastbone to her belly. Here's an idea. I'll demonstrate them, and you keep count.

Tessa Dare

#7. Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.

Tim Tharp

#8. He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up in a small space to think about it. He wanted to grab it and eat it like an apple so that nobody else could have it.

Jean Stafford

#9. Unforgiveness,
splinter in your breastbone, lives
there lodged like a small tree.
Withers in winter, looms
in spring. Its fruit is sweet
on first bite, then turns
into the taste of your own flesh.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#10. He'd watched a falcon fall down the long blue wall of the mountain and break with the keel of its breastbone the midmost from a flight of cranes and take it to the river below all gangly and wrecked and trailing its loose and blowsy plumage in the still autumn air.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. Winter? She traced a circle on his breastbone, her touch

Elizabeth Hoyt

#12. He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

Louise Hay

#14. They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.

Cesar Romero

#15. Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.

Harper Lee

#16. Persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious

Benjamin Franklin

#17. Does Hallmark make a "Sorry I tried to drink your blood and touched you in a vaguely inappropriate manner" card? I settled for "How much do you remember?

Molly Harper