Cheek Quotes

#1. I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Rumi

#2. With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

John Dryden

#3. Gods of Olympus." Piper stared at Leo. "What happened to you?"
His hair was greased back. He had welding goggles on his forehead, a lipstick mark on his cheek, tattoos all over his arms, and a T-shirt that read HOT STUFF, BAD BOY, and TEAM LEO.
"Long story," he said.

Rick Riordan

#4. More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars." I covered my cheek, looking at her. "Not just those scars. The ones that make you think you're unlovable.

A.C. Gaughen

#5. And as if the wink was't crazy enough, now he had the gall to flash that smile of his. It deepened the dimple in his left cheek, the one she'd always thought was sweet enough to launch a thousand lady boners - it'd certainly launched a thousand of her.

Julie Ann Walker

#6. Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.

James Schuyler

#7. Yelled, and finally got me on my cheek with a loud slap that made

Anita Diamant

#8. I love you," he said. "I want you more than life itself. Forever." He brushed a hand across her cheek. "And I will take care of you always.

Chelsea Fine

#9. Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.

Linda Lafferty

#10. A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see.

Calvin O'John

#11. Caleb looks into my eyes as he repeats our vows. His own eyes moisten and it's enough to send a tear falling down my own cheek.

Kristen Proby

#12. It's just mechanics." Kai scooped an arm around her waist and pulled her against him. "No, it's impressive," he said, using the pad of his thumb to brush something off Cinder's cheek. "Not to mention, weirdly attractive," he said, before capturing her lips. Cinder

Marissa Meyer

#13. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.

Stephen King

#14. O-90 sat over the notebook, her head leaning toward her left shoulder, and making such an effort that her tongue was pushing her left cheek out. She looked like such a child, so charming. And so I felt good all over, clear, simple ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#15. No, all that David could think about was the head of the deer-girl, for her face rubbed against his as they rode, her warm blood smeared his cheek, and he saw himself reflected in the dark green mirrors of her eyes.

John Connolly

#16. So did you shoot him?" Cameron asked awkwardly before running his fingers across Julian's cheek.
"No," Julian answered grudgingly. "He was just doing his job," he sighed, as if that was the only thing he could say to console himself for not killing the animal that mauled him.

Abigail Roux

#17. He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do.

Sylvia Day

#18. She rubbed her cheek on his chest like a sleepy cat. "I like when you hold me."
Dios, she was going to break his heart. "I like when I hold you too.

Cherise Sinclair

#19. The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.

John Thackway

#20. The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek?

Horace Walpole

#21. And I'm just saying that by the end of these seven days or maybe a week from then, or a month, you'll say yes." He cupped my cheek and leaned inm pressing his forehead to mine. "And I'll be waiting. No matter how long it takes.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. It's not goodbye, Sam. It's see you in two days. I promise ... " she said stroking his hair away from his dimpled cheek.
"I'm counting on it. You will be missed," he said as he put her hand on his chest near his heart. "You will be missed right here ...

Rachel Hanna

#23. dripped down her neck and stained the collar of her shirt. It was a mirror to the wash of blood pouring from her scalp, blinding her left eye and trailing down her cheek like macabre tears.

Kayti Nika Raet

#24. I'll rest up. As soon as I take care of the horses for his majesty." "See you tomorrow." She went up on her tiptoes to kiss Nic's cheek. At the last moment he turned his face so she kissed his lips instead. This earned her a newly brightened ear-to-ear grin. "Till tomorrow, princess.

Morgan Rhodes

#25. At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having

J.K. Rowling

#26. Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.

George R R Martin

#27. She has soft, delicate features, high cheek bones, a full mouth and pretty wide-set eyes. She's lovely.

Anonymous

#28. To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Calvin Harris

#29. His lids lowered and he brushed her cheek with the tips of his fingers. "What if I fall in love with you?"
She turned her face into his palm. "You won't.

Rachel Gibson

#30. She closed her eyes and held all her dreams between her fingers like a dandelion and just blew it. She smiled watching it fly through the air, making everything look beautiful around her while a tear rolled down her cheek.

Akshay Vasu

#31. From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#32. Arobynn only smiled at her, taller by a head. And when he reached out, she allowed him to brush his knuckles down her cheek. The calluses on is fingers said enough about how often he practiced. I do not expect you to trust me; I do not expect you to love me.

Sarah J. Maas

#33. He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.
She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.
She was exquisite.

Jo Beverley

#34. Did he hurt you? The emotion I was trying to suppress clawed at my throat, unleashed by the gentleness in Philip's voice. Without warning, a tear slipped down my cheek. I swiped it away.

Julianne Donaldson

#35. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)

Marian Anderson

#36. Courtney came over to me and touched my cheek. I winced. It hurt.
You look like hell," Courtney said.
I shrugged.
She looked at Saint Dane, then back at me. "He looks worse." She smiled. "Awesome.

D.J. MacHale

#37. The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

Mark Hopkins

#38. Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she's gone and i'm left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.

Suzanne Collins

#40. If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.

Alice Bag

#41. Betia laughed a little, shaking her head. She leaned forward and kissed my cheek as she grabbed my hands and pulled me to my feet. Her brown eyes glittered with a devil-may-care recklessness that warmed me to my toes. If it would make her smile that way, I would dance all night.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#42. I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.

Jessica Sorensen

#43. We played with the moon all night, painting faces on its blank cheek, shining its spotlight into sleeping people's windows. But mostly we just ate the moon, stuck tongues to its surface and felt it dissolve, left chunks of its minty scalp on neighbors' doorsteps.

Jalina Mhyana

#44. Every particle of dust on a patch of earth
Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star;
Shake the dust off your sleeve carefully
That too was a delicate, fair face.

Omar Khayyam

#45. Peace be with you," he says softly, kissing me on the cheek, and I tell him the same. Then, we shake hands with everyone around us. My eyes fill with tears of joy as I look around at the smiling people, all sharing

Kristina Ludwig

#46. I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

Hilarie Burton

#47. If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

Malcolm X

#48. You're a machine," she murmured when he swept kisses across her jaw and over her cheek.
"Only for you, sweetheart.

Savannah Stuart

#49. The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears.

George R R Martin

#50. We were lying on the blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks, like we always did that summer. Lena was on her side, cheek resting on her hand, hair loose. Beautiful.

Lauren Oliver

#51. Then I guess I'll just have to try biting again"
"You wanna try?" He leaned the curve of my cheek. "Let me suggest more appropriate places. I have this piercing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#52. My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

Ellen Schreiber

#53. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

Bernard Hill

#54. Why," he panted into Danny's neck, "why's it so goddamn good?" He was surprised at how full his voice sounded, so close to overflowing its steady banks.
Danny stroked his hair, his lips warm against Miller's cheek. "Because it's us, Miller," he whispered. "Because it's us.

Brooke McKinley

#55. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.

Jerrold Yam

#56. O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- Romeo -

William Shakespeare

#57. I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones.

D.D. Prince

#58. Over to kiss him on the cheek. "Just so you know, I'm right here," Mom

John Green

#59. If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

John C. Maxwell

#60. I love you," Ty whispered against Zane's lips. Zane smiled and pressed his nose against Ty's cheek. "I love you, too." "I'm going to keep asking until you say yes." Zane smiled against his cheek. "I know." Zane

Abigail Roux

#61. Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

William Shakespeare

#62. He leans close to me again, gently placing his hand on my cheek and stares straight into my eyes. "I know that this thing we have - you and me - there is no end, Sara. You don't have to worry about life without me, because I go where you go.

J.A. DeRouen

#63. You slept-on top of the blanket," he said.
"Uh, yeah."
"Were you trying to protect my honor?" He asked, and his smile spread from cheek to cheek.

Atom Yang

#64. Kiss the girl, already." Johnson begins to sing. Badly. A cheesy tot hits his cheek, and he chucks a wing at Diaz in retaliation. It goes wide. "Isn't that the song the little crab sings in The Lion King?" Dex asks. "It's The Little Mermaid. And stop playing like you don't know.

Kristen Callihan

#65. He kissed the corner of my mouth, kissed my cheek, and growled in my ear, Fireworks or what?

Jennifer Echols

#66. We get all the bad dreams, ese," she
said, stroking my wet cheek with the palm of her hand. "We got to leave some for somebody else.

Janet Fitch

#67. I can feel her smile against my cheek, and with our arms wrapped tightly around each other and our bodies connected, we both close our eyes, and for the first time in a long time, I sleep with complete peace.

Harper Sloan

#68. love you, vampire." His face grew serious and he stroked her cheek with his thumb. "I love you, little witch.

Darling Adams

#69. I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

Umar

#70. You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity, in his stories of contemporary Police activities, and, with a disarming tongue in cheek, frankness.

Joseph Wambaugh

#71. He bent his head down, running his nose along my cheek. My neck. Behind my ear, huffing his scent onto me like he hadn't done since he'd become the Alpha. I loved it. And him. But

T.J. Klune

#72. A bead of liquid appears at her hairline and slides down her face. When it hits her cheek, I can't tell if the drop is from the beer or from her eyes. My hand moves, the need to touch her more powerful than thought. Before I know what I'm doing, I wipe away the wetness.

Katie McGarry

#73. She leaned down, a fraction closer, and for some
reason unknown to man, he lifted his head the tiniest
bit. Enough so she could brush his cheek with her
lips. Good night, Mr. Merrick.

Anne Mallory

#74. I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

Chloe Sevigny

#75. With his nose in my hair, he inhaled deeply before putting a light kiss on my cheek. "Have you come to play?" he asked then kissed me again.
"No." I cringed when he drew my earlobe into his mouth. "I came to help you. That's all. I swear."
"I'd rather play.

H.D. Smith

#76. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis Cupid's fire.

James Harrington

#77. Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

Sanjida Kay

#78. Louis-Cesare looked pained. Ray was even dirtier than I was, and his bright red briefs had gotten a tear across the butt at some point, flashing a glimpse of hairy cheek whenever he moved. An awesome trophy he was not.

Karen Chance

#79. My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

Phoebe Damrosch

#80. But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

Suzanne Collins

#81. Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

Karl Lagerfeld

#82. I am a cold man. Any happiness or warmth I've felt died when Jax tried to take his life. Until you." His ragged breath gusts over my cheek. "You are my warmth.

Kristen Callihan

#83. I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!

Rodney Dangerfield

#84. I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

John M. Corse

#85. A long sigh escaped him before he said, "We're in something of a predicament, love."
I turned my face to look up at him. "We are?"
Reaching, out, he stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. "Yes, my darling, because I very much want to fuck you.

L. H. Cosway

#86. Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know.

Stephanie Perkins

#87. I will desist;
... But there is something glows upon my cheek,
And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.

William Shakespeare

#88. A white-tailed hawk still flew overhead, and it swooped low to brush its star-silvered wing against her cheek in farewell before it turned back with a sharp cry.

Sarah J. Maas

#89. Nick almost breaks a full smile when the men around him laugh aloud. "I don't kiss on the cheek." He said smoothly giving her the opportunity to end it there, but instead, she drags the bride over to him and asks again.

Jennifer Loren

#90. The water settled along with Lex's frantic breaths, and she lifted her face from the crook of Dallas's neck. "Jesus."

Grinning, Dallas pushed damp hair back from her cheek. "Yeah, that got a little out of hand. I can't seem to keep my cock out of you.

Kit Rocha

#91. Fire Orchid patted his cheek. Lucky for you, you don't need worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.

Michael Swanwick

#92. He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes.
"You love me?"
"It's the tattoos," I shrugged.
A wide smile stretched across his face, making his
dimple sink into his cheek.

Jamie McGuire

#93. It's a yeti," said Gaspar from behind me, obviously having been roused from his trance. "An abominable snowman." "This is what happens when you fuck a sheep!?" I exclaimed. "Not an abomination," Josh said, "abominable." The yeti licked him on the cheek.

Christopher Moore

#94. For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away ... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

Ally Condie

#95. Hunter touches my cheek, kisses my chin. "I will always love you. You saved me, Rania."
I shake my head. "No, you have saved me,"
"We have saved each other then," he says.

Jasinda Wilder

#96. You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell."
For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Pat Conroy

#97. Tell me what you need," he said between raining soft kisses against my hair, temple, and cheek. "I'll do anything for you.

Penny Reid

#98. Sid is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

John Leguizamo

#99. You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it.

Nicole Williams

#100. A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find ... a perfect paper airplane.

Ellen Hopkins