Top 100 Heart Stopped Quotes
#1. For a moment my heart stopped beating. "It's not the fall you know." His breath was all warm on my cheek. "It's that sudden stop at the end that does it." Just before I kissed him, I whispered, "I hope it doesn't hurt much.
James Buchanan
#2. Her father had proven to them all: when a beating heart stopped, there was no black or white, only blood-red.
Sarah McCoy
#3. Furlough?" He said.
"What?" said the first hood irritably.
Despereaux shuddered. His own brother was delivering him to the dungeon. His heart stopped beating and shrunk to a small, cold, disbelieving pebble.
Kate DiCamillo
#4. Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language.
J.R. Ward
#5. Aedion's heart stopped dead. "It's a sea dragon," he managed to say.
Well, at least he now knew what secret form Lysandra had been working on.
Sarah J. Maas
#6. The buzzer went off again, and Neil's heart stopped. The ringing in his ears wasn't all him. His teammates were screaming, wordless war cries of disbelief and victory.
Nora Sakavic
#7. My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z".
Cheyenne Jackson
#8. Nate grinned and Ali's heart stopped.
God, the man was beautiful. His smile transformed his face the way dawn transforms the night.
Julie Ann Walker
#9. I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
Beth Revis
#10. I missed you."
My heart stopped. "What?"
"You heard me."
"Please," I said. "No. Don't do this."
"I dreamed about you." Pause. "Every night."
Oh God, I was weak. Weak.
Nenia Campbell
#11. My heart stopped beating, I know it did. Hearts do that sometimes, for just a beat or two. Then they start up again. But they never regain those missed beats, and nothing is ever the same afterwards. Life proceeds to a different cadence, and never again as harmonious as before
Ann Rinaldi
#12. My heart stopped talking because it didn't want to talk anymore for a while.
Ray Bradbury
#13. My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.
Ozzy Osbourne
#15. The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison
#16. In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline
#17. She looked from the hilt protruding between her breasts into the eyes of the boy she loved. The golden light in them enfolded her and her heart stopped beating, leaving the ghost of her smile on her mouth. Her vacant eyes mirrored something infinitely close to peace.
Farrah Naseem
#18. Please don't look at me like that," she whispered.
"Like what?"
"Like you love me."
His heart stopped. Just stopped. "I think I do," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#19. My girl is talented, Noah said.
My heart stopped beating.
Michelle Hodkin
#20. Each line she etched into the metal was another life cut off, another heart stopped at the slice of this very blade.
A hundred lives to cover up the pain of the very first. A hundred more to shovel away the hurt into a place that was dark and deep.
Sasha Alsberg
#21. I've heard people say My heart stopped - which of course isn't possible unless you've just died - but I now understood where the perception might originate.
Tammara Webber
#22. If we were stopped and questioned, I always smiled at the officers, and they always smiled back. In my heart, I was seeing them dead. But on my face, I was an open invitation. If you are only a girl, this is how you destroy your enemies.
Irene Gut Opdyke
#23. I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.
Daphne Gottlieb
#24. Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?
Tim Burton
#25. And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.
Josh Lanyon
#26. Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.
Jill Shalvis
#27. You're a total criminal, aren't you?" she asked, but to her surprise, she was grinning ear to ear. He shook his head. "Have I stolen your heart yet?" That stopped her cold. She blinked several times. "What?" "Don't answer," he whispered. "I won't take it until you give it freely.
Helena Hunting
#28. The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away,and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure ... Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way
Ryokan
#29. I don't want another to love you, Because I wanted you for myself. I've never stopped loving you. Never stopped wanting you. Every second of every day, my heart has always been yours.
Jessica Clare
#30. I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.
John Wiltshire
#31. Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
Glen Duncan
#32. One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially when I was feeling particularly lonely.
Susan Crandall
#33. Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains
the few that there were
stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
Aldous Huxley
#34. Do you need to hear that I haven't stopped missing you for one single since we broke up? Do I have to tell you that my heart hurts with how much I love you?
A Meredith Walters
#35. He looked up at me, stuttered a few times, and then seemed to forget what he was saying altogether. I didn't say anything, or act surprised that he stopped talking. I just stared at him, feeling my heart pounding in my throat.
"Wow." He said.
"What?"
"You just left me speechless.
L.D. Davis
#36. I'll come back to you." "And you'll marry me ... " "In my heart I already have." "And you'll give us babies ... " "I can't wait to meet our children." "And you'll love me ... " "I never stopped, and I never will.
Elizabeth Finn
#37. Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.
Sylvia Plath
#38. No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.
Dez Schwartz
#39. Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd. -Cage
Abbi Glines
#40. He brushed the hair back from her brow. "Were you scared, baby?"
"No," she said, shaking her head. "I knew you were coming."
"You did?"
She touched her chest. "Your heart beats in here. If it had stopped, I would have known. It did beat a little fast sometimes.
Robyn Carr
#41. When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Talk to me. Look up, I thought. But she didn't, only stopped and picked a sprig of alyssum to smell the honey. I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.
Janet Fitch
#43. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
Henry James
#44. Eternity is the stopped heart of Time.
Sorin Cerin
#45. We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.
Moxie Mezcal
#46. 'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus
#47. I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean ... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
Sophie Kinsella
#48. And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
Anne Sexton
#49. So quiet ... it's like ... all the sounds in the world ... have been stopped ... only you scent ... in the deepest part of my heart ... echoing ...
Yuu Watase
#50. For Beatrice, our love broke my heart,
and stopped yours.
Lemony Snicket
#51. He had never cared if his victims lived or died once he was through with them. But not her. He couldn't allow her to die. The moment he felt that small flutter of her heart, ready to give way to his hunger, he had stopped and gazed down at her for long moments.
Elaine White
#52. She hardly felt the steps down the aisle, though she did feel the weight of all eyes on her as she walked. It was over in what seemed far too little time, and then her dad handed her off to Shane, and her heart almost stopped as his eyes met hers.
Rachel Caine
#53. I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
Charlotte Bronte
#54. My body trembled as all the regrets of my life washed through me, my heart feeling as if it were on the verge of failing. My sould cried out for her. It had never stopped its search for her in nine years, and I could still feel her calling for me.
A.L. Jackson
#55. Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
John Green
#56. Perhaps it wasn't beating because it had broken clean through and stopped
Josephine Angelini
#57. Her correspondence had been like the pumping of a heart into a severed artery, wild and incessant at first, then slowing down with a kind of muscular reluctance to a stream that became a trickle and finally ceased; the heart had stopped.
Michael Chabon
#59. My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.
Alicia Deters
#60. Your beauty took my breath away, but your mind has stopped my heart.
Ivan Rusilko
#61. I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.
Constance Marie
#62. Mara leans over and whispers in my ear, I know you're charmingly naive when it comes to matters of the heart, but you just stopped him in his tracks.
Rae Carson
#64. Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.
John Shelton Reed
#65. The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
John Lasseter
#66. I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin. It worked for a while. Then it stopped; but I had no heart to try again.
Susanna Kaysen
#67. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.
Penny Reid
#68. But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
Cal Thomas
#69. When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.
Nenia Campbell
#70. I could've totally cut out your heart before you knew what was happening." "What stopped you?" "I thought Montgomery might've been pissed off at all the blood on the sheets." "Montgomery would never be something as uncouth as pissed off. Annoyed in an icily genteel manner, perhaps.
Nalini Singh
#71. Nalla blinked and waved his finger and transformed him: Everything stopped as she moved not just his hand, but his heart.
J.R. Ward
#72. I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I'm even having a heart attack, but it doesn't seem worth mentioning.
Suzanne Collins
#73. Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country ... the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.
Leonid Brezhnev
#74. The way you walked away
The way you stopped and waited
All that time
What was in your heart?
A laugh?
A sarcasm?
Couldn't we be lovers?
Though we have never walked together
Shasika Amali Munasinghe
#75. Jace told me once you'd walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn't stopped me.
Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. "He said that? And you stuck around?"
He leaned in toward her ... "I would consider it an honor.
Cassandra Clare
#76. There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.
Ryu Murakami
#77. My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard Adams
#78. The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
Alice Meynell
#79. He's turned my blood to ice, stopped my heart from pumping it from fear that if it does, it might still beat for him.
J.M. Darhower
#80. It stayed there because, honey, I've never stopped loving you. In my heart, you are my wife and always will be. ~Carlos & Maddie
Bernadette Marie
#81. Her heart literally stopped and she felt her fight-or-flight mode kick in. Part of her wanted to hide and cry, while the other part of her wanted to reach for her 9mm and shoot the bastard.
Kathleen Brooks
#82. He moved his head closer to mine and then stopped, his lips a few millimetres away from mine. I couldn't breathe, my heart was racing, but not from the usual fear I had. It was because I wanted to kiss him
Kirsty Moseley
#83. Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.
Robin Beth Schaer
#84. On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter, she thought.
Michele Jaffe
#85. He touched my little brother - I stopped his heart.
It was a fair trade.
Rob Thurman
#86. The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
Baron De Montesquieu
#87. If I had been thinking, I would have stopped. A dom should never, ever have an ounce of anger in his heart when spanking a sub. That wasn't fun. That wasn't all right.
C.D. Reiss
#88. A man had said that to her once at the stage door. She'd been leaving after a theatre session, buzzing still with the high of performance, and he'd stopped her to say how much he'd enjoyed it. "You've a great talent for observation," he'd said. "Ears, eyes, and heart, all at once.
Kate Morton
#89. I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me ... my heart.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#90. His smile and beautiful green eyes drew me in and made my knees weak ... You know, my heart almost stopped when you kissed me.
Jordan Deen
#91. ...My taut heart
lurches heavily, like a sack in a cart, clattering
downhill, towards a cliff, towards an abyss!
It can't be stopped!
Vladimir Nabokov
#92. O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#93. Andromache: See, I've stopped crying. I won't cry ever again, I promise you.
Helen: Don't promise that. Never promise that. Tears are good sometimes. They clear the heart of sorrow. Cry.
Adele Geras
#94. In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting
Lorraine Heath
#95. You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.
Megan McCafferty
#96. Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.
Brian Andreas
#97. Ethereal, adj.
You leaned your head into mine, and I leaned my head into yours. Dancing cheek to cheek. Revolving slowly, eyes closed, heartbeat measure, nature's hum. It lasted the length of an old song, and then we stopped, kissed, and my heart stayed there, just like that.
David Levithan
#98. I've never felt so heartbroken and so in love at the same time. If you would've told me the day we met that you were going to break my heart - and that days, months, or even years would pass, that I would still be hurting like this - it wouldn't have stopped me from falling in love with you.
Gail McHugh
#99. Give me one last time," he begged. "Please, please. I beg you." "I - " She stopped and started again. "I'm afraid, Gabriel. You'll break my heart." "Mine is already broken.
Eloisa James
#100. Her heart was broken, but it had not stopped beating.
Sophie Jordan
