Guttural Quotes

#1. A laugh that wasn't Ben's came from down the hall followed by a guttural sound that almost certainly was. Why did Maddox have to know that sound? Things would be so much easier if he didn't. No one's fault but yours. Maddox

Annabeth Albert

#2. He couldn't live in a world with her and not have her in his life. Nope. Not happening.
"You're mine," he growled against her swollen lips. The words came out guttural as he held back the urge to slam into her.

Katie Reus

#3. Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

Anthony Jeselnik

#4. They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

Mark Goddard

#5. Like most Lebanese, Joumana speaks rapidly, one sentence dovetailing into another, producing guttural words and phrases as if gargling with mouthwash. I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversations with many pauses, pauses replacing words.

Rabih Alameddine

#6. You sure about this?" he asked in a guttural voice. "I get down on that mattress right now, I'm not stopping until I'm inside of you.

J.R. Ward

#7. You're mine, Nissa." The words were guttural, strained.
She knew it. Deep inside her core the truth was there.

Savannah Stuart

#8. Thoughts that should be unthought before interacting with the public. Thoughts like [low guttural growl] or [knuckles crack, fists clench, teeth tighten, eyes stop letting in any new information, and water runs down a rigid face].

Joseph Fink

#9. I've thought about how you'd taste," he said, in a low, guttural voice, and she whimpered, arched against his mouth.

"Jesus," he panted. "It's like a fucking drug."

~Tommy aka "Ender

Sydney Croft

#10. I let loose a guttural roar-the cry of a man who has been deprived of his rightful kibbeh. I drew my sword and smacked the eagle with flat of the blade

Rick Riordan

#11. He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. It's enough to send a spike of sensation through me, and enough to make him push out this delicious sound. It's like an oh with the smooth bits sawn off, all rough and guttural and so good to hear.

Charlotte Stein

#13. The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

Zola Jesus

#14. The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France.

William Gaddis

#15. What are you doing?" she cried in protest.
"Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Linda Howard

#16. At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.

Don DeLillo

#17. The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you.

Dashiell Hammett

#18. Our species is angry on a deep level. We know something has been wrong for a long time. We are tired of being thrown the scraps. This is primal, guttural; the scream of an exhausted humanity who will not take no for an answer.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#19. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word postmodernist.

Donna Tartt

#20. There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Louis MacNeice

#21. I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies.
"I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly.
Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bloody laugh. I don't think he even has the parts left to laugh with. "Get in line.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.

Stephen Merchant

#23. I know!" he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

Victoria Aveyard

#24. I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

Stephen Merchant

#25. His voice had fallen into the guttural range. "She is not you. No one will ever be what you are to me." Her heart broke. Into a million tiny pieces.

Nalini Singh

#26. She loved their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.

Erik Larson

#27. Last chance," he said in guttural voice. "Get out, or get in my bed."
"Is there a third option?

Lisa Kleypas

#28. Your amethyst-colored eyes." His voice guttural and sexy. "They change when you're angry, or aroused.

Lorien Lyn

#29. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

Nelson Mandela

#30. You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Wayne Dyer

#31. I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#32. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

Sarah Dessen

#33. Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Luc Sante

#34. The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Barry Commoner

#35. Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just ... programmed?

Marissa Meyer

#36. Let them fall Mowgli, they are only tears.

Rudyard Kipling

#37. I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Kay Bailey Hutchison