Could Feel Quotes

#1. Beer?" Gabriel was so close that Rase could feel Gabriel's breath on his hair.
"This isn't a social call," Rase said, not even trying to keep his voice steady.
"Then why are your clothes still on?

Anah Crow

#2. You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel it echo through him. He stepped closer again, leveled his face inches from mine, and whispered in the softest of voices, "Whore.

Darynda Jones

#3. But I could feel resentment inside me, and I knew it would keep growing until it changed into something far more dangerous.

Carsten Jensen

#4. Coiled and personal, Laurent's gift was a Veretian whip, made of gold.
Damen recognized it.
[ ... ]
His gaze flung to Laurent. He knew he had flushed, he could feel the heat in his own cheeks. In front of the gathered generals, he couldn't say, What have you done?

C.S. Pacat

#5. Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth
an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

Geraldine Brooks

#6. Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which he floated with log-like calm.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. And when he realized I was on my way, his gaze flew up to mine. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved.
The world woke up when I looked at him.

Kiera Cass

#8. The power of the rumor mill, if you could feel it as I do, would boggle your mind.

Kristin Cashore

#9. Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.

Stephen Graham Jones

#10. This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Ayn Rand

#11. And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him.

P.C. Cast

#12. As I touched the beast I remembered how, even on that long-ago night, I could feel a tremendous thing moving in the depths below me, something vast and white and singing.

Lauren Groff

#13. Irial!"
"Still here." Irial didn't open his eyes, but he smiled a little.
"You're an ass," Niall said, but he kept his hands on Irial's chest so that he could feel both pulse and breath.
"You too, Gancanagh," Irial murmured.

Melissa Marr

#14. I could feel the tension radiate from my solar plexus and jangle along the nerve circuitry. It had nothing to do with the weather.

Robert B. Parker

#15. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

Alan McCluskey

#16. I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Libba Bray

#17. Scarlet could feel everyone's curious gazes switching between her and the princess. She cleared her throat. "She's harmless," she said. "I'm pretty sure." Winter

Marissa Meyer

#18. She was wrong. She was not strong. Her heart was breaking, she could feel it ...
-Sky

Melissa De La Cruz

#19. She couldn't believe losing someone you had known such a short time could feel like losing part of yourself, that it could make food taste wrong and colors seem dull.

Jojo Moyes

#20. For the last few hours I could feel myself growing less drunk and more hungover by slow degrees. I'd never been awake through the entire process before, and it was not pleasant.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears sliding down my skin, into my ears, and back over my scalp. Which told me that they'd cut off my hair, too. For some reason, that little bit of vanity was what it took to undo me completely.

Elizabeth Schechter

#22. Ripper was my rainstorm, my skin-drenching frenzy, where you couldn't tell right from left, where all you could feel was the phenomenon exploding throughout your body, feverishly burning through you even as it pleasurably cooled.

Madeline Sheehan

#23. Through her jacket, I could feel her heartbeat. It made me happy to know she was alive, was real, was there.

Alex Flinn

#24. Pain was tertiary. I could feel it later, for any length of time it desired.

Caitlin Kittredge

#25. She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer's far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.

Stella Gibbons

#26. I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#27. Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It was almost exotic, like tasting turmeric or saffron after a year of eating pudding. There was a bite to it.
She was annoyed.
She was finally awake and annoyed.

Sarah Addison Allen

#28. Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn't feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest.

Rainbow Rowell

#29. Wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.

Jacqueline Woodson

#30. He could feel the cum slipping out of Ty, dripping down his cock, and yet it continued. Ty

Abigail Roux

#31. This is the corpse road, she said, aligning her body with the invisible path. As she did, she could feel something inside her begin to hum agreeably, a sensation very much like the satisfaction that came from aligning book spines on a shelf.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. As if moved by a breeze that only she could feel.

Paolo Giordano

#33. And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

Sarah Dessen

#34. Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.

Ivy Devlin

#35. I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

Jacob Aue Sobol

#36. I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

Teri McKeever

#37. She could feel the heat from his body behind her. It radiated from his chest to her shoulder blades. The silk of his bow tie brushed against her hair, penetrating it, until it grazed across the surface of her neck, causing it to explode into goose-pimples.

Sylvain Reynard

#38. I could feel her breasts up against my stomach. I wanted a beer real bad.

Haruki Murakami

#39. I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show. I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Tom Petty

#40. There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Vance Havner

#41. He was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world had been held in a stable, him included. But soon, soon it was going to bust out all over the place.

Dennis Lehane

#42. Saddened that I, a smart, semi-funny, nutty, loyal, good woman, could feel so negative about myself under all the smiling and humor, I felt the sting of tears in my eyes. The way I felt about my appearance was bad. Really freakin' bad.

Samantha Young

#43. It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves ...

William Landay

#44. You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#45. Their damp bodies slapped together, and he could feel himself pushing past that tight ring of muscle with almost every one of Zane's movements.

Abigail Roux

#46. Until then, I would pretend my ankle was made of steel, like some kind of bionic joint, and that I could feel no pain. I was superhuman. I could do anything.
But I'd take some Tylenol, just in case. Lots of Tylenol.

Rachel Vincent

#47. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.

Kate Chopin

#48. That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them.

L.J. Hayward

#49. I could feel what was left of my soul just slipping away as I fed on that girl until she was totally and completely drained.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#50. She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#51. Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

Smokey Robinson

#52. The forest stretched away before him. Beneath his paws he could feel the crisp crackle of newly fallen leaves. Silverpelt glittered in the sky like morning dew scattered on black fur.

Erin Hunter

#53. Fireheart recognized Mistyfoot, Silverstream's best friend. He knew she would love these kits as much as her own. But no cat could feel more strongly for Graystripe than Fireheart had, for four long seasons.

Erin Hunter

#54. Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

Peter Abrahams

#55. I didn't know you could feel lucky for getting to hold a girl's hair back while she pukes into the bushes. I didn't know you could look at a girl and think, 'Jesus, I could fall so hard for you if you'd let me.

Dahlia Adler

#56. He held me as if I were his most prized possession and I could feel every beat of his heart against me, as we embraced, lovingly. I felt safer and more loved than I had ever thought I could feel, and I never wanted it to end.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#57. So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

Rose Tremain

#58. He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.

George R R Martin

#59. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber.

Gillian Flynn

#60. I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its mindless hate. I quailed to think of the power that had called it into being and loosed it on the world.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#61. Something about the Judge Raymond Randolph murder case. Something was wrong. He could feel it deep in his bones, like a sliver buried under the skin.

B. J. Daniels

#62. I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out.

Sue Grafton

#63. A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, "I believe this is my dance." It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in a warm breeze.

Colleen Houck

#64. I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

Cheryl Strayed

#65. The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

Michael Connelly

#66. Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

Mary Wigman

#67. We were close enough to kiss, so close I could feel his warm breathon my mouth. I parted my lips, taking what he felt he could give me, inhailing the kiss he couldn't give me.

Rhys Ford

#68. As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian's eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.

Kailin Gow

#69. I was having the best game of my life. This was it. I could feel it. Everything was finally falling in to place. I had the glow.

Ernest Cline

#70. I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs.

James M. Cain

#71. Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing. "It's not funny," I said. "Babe, I haven't got a lot of funny in my life. Let me enjoy the moment.

Janet Evanovich

#72. I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

Lana Del Rey

#73. She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations.

Ari Berk

#74. He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#75. If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Melanie Rawn

#76. He could feel the shape of his eyeballs beneath his lids, round and hot, tasty bits of jelly rolling restless to and fro, looking vainly for oblivion, while the rising sun turned his lids a dark and bloody red.

Diana Gabaldon

#77. The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Melody Beattie

#78. When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don't and you won't.

Karina Halle

#79. If I believed in soul mates or any of that shit, I knew she was mine. I could feel it, this connection with her I couldn't possibly share with anyone else. Like we fit, this fucked -up puzzle that made no sense until we aligned the pieces.

A.L. Jackson

#80. I could feel my tan skin, turning translucent with nerves,

Rachel Higginson

#81. I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

Sylvia Plath

#82. You didn't steal me," he whispered, his face so close that she could feel the warmth of his breath. "You rescued me." "Like Rapunzel?" she teased, and he kissed her again. And again. And again.

Ally Carter

#83. There was no stopping it ... The way you worked yourself right into my heart. You took it over, Aly. You made me feel something real again when I believed all I could feel was hate.

A.L. Jackson

#84. Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency.

Donald Miller

#85. The memory slowly faded away. I could feel tears strolling down my snout from my eyes. I missed my father ... He did what he could to save me that day.

Grace Fiorre

#86. Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.

Christopher Pike

#87. Once I checked my email, I would get lost in a book so I could feel the main character's pain instead of mine, laugh at her missteps rather than lament my own, and cheer for the happy ending that seemed to elude me.

Meredith Schorr

#88. Listening to him play was like discovering an eagle in the wild. It was tumblingly bewitching. She could feel and hear genius she knew it.

Debra Anastasia

#89. I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed me down. It told me that she would always be there for me.

Kaimana Wolff

#90. He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.

Laini Taylor

#91. Suddenly an ice-cold wind went through the vast hall, and the blind mother could feel that Death had arrived.
'How have you been able to find your way here?' he asked, 'how have you been able to get here faster than I have?'
'I'm a mother, she said.

Hans Christian Andersen

#92. You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

Ann Brashares

#93. Awesome," I murmured, sliding my sunglasses on top of my head. Thanks to the humidity, my hair felt like it had tripled in size. I could feel it trying to devour my sunglasses like some sort of carnivorous jungle plant. "I always wondered what it would be like to live in somebody's mouth.

Rachel Hawkins

#94. Before I was really ready to settle in, dawn was creeping up outside, flushing the far side of the curtains. I could feel it approaching, like the footsteps of someone unpleasant coming up the stairs.

Cherie Priest

#95. When my baby was born, I felt like somebody had spiked my drink, and I suddenly was so full of love that it was a little bit as if I was drugged. I didn't think that anyone could feel that way.

Anne-Marie Duff

#96. He could sense her breathing, her temple against his jaw and her shoulder under his hand were warm, her hair smelt of well-brushed hair, he could feel the presence of her body ...

Kingsley Amis

#97. I could've drowned in that beauty, that and the love I could feel radiating off of her.

Richelle Mead

#98. Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

Arthur Eddington

#99. I could feel the shakes starting to come back, so I washed my face, rinsed my mouth out with handfuls of tap water, pasted on my best I-didn't-just-kill-a-zombie expression, and left with my coffee.

Jonathan Maberry

#100. Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn't even know could feel.

Richelle E. Goodrich