Held Onto Quotes

#1. I was where my heart held out hope that someday I would be again. It was the reason I never forgot him. My heart had held onto him. And as he clung to me, as he soothed me, held me, I felt everything begin to relax.

Rebecca Ethington

#2. In the weak light of the lonely lamp, he held onto her, for a solid minute, his head buried in her neck as if he needed her. Just like the night in the hotel room when he pressed his forehead to hers and damn near liquefied her heart.

Kendall Grey

#3. I held onto her and the world slipped away. She calmed my mind and my soul lifted when close to her. Mina Harris was the better part of me, and I would keep her happy for the rest of my life.

Belle Aurora

#4. Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

Valerie June

#5. Time had passed, yet her heart held onto him. She did not draw breath without thinking of him. She did not dream without feeling his presence at her side. His voice, in memory, was sweeter than any she'd heard. And she did not want to be without him.

Sasha Summers

#6. As Semminex held onto the sword's handle, he watched the jewel in the centerpiece begin to glow and hum even louder than before. Nervous, he tried to pull his hand away, but he couldn't release his grip. His hand fused to the handle as energy pulsated from the sword into his hand and up his arm.

George Sirois

#7. He was explicit sex, personified.
I was hungered curiosity, caged.
And as long as I held onto the key, my heart would remain unscathed.

K.M. Golland

#8. It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet

Markus Zusak

#9. So, unlike the heroes of Hebrews 11 who held onto nothing of this life, these dying churches held onto everything, at least everything that made them comfortable and happy. Such is the reason we speak of them in the past.

Thom S. Rainer

#10. Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

Neil Gaiman

#11. It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.

Frederick Lenz

#12. She undid the buttons of his coat, gently slipped her arms round his waist and pulled him tight against her body, then kissed him on the lips, so gently; she held onto him for what to David seemed like hours.

Michael Braccia

#13. We were drifting apart. I felt helpless to stop the pattern, but still, I held onto him for dear life.

R.K. Lilley

#14. One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.

Hark-Joon Lee

#15. Ocean?""Yeah baby." "Please don't leave me like everyone else, don't let me drown Ocean." "I hugged her tighter. "Livie I won't let you drown. If you drown, I drown baby." I held onto her and closed my eyes, and silently cried myself to sleep. *Ocean Hawthorne*

MEL D

#16. I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Mike Figgis

#17. Wisdom can be found and held onto ... but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

Doug Berry

#18. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.

Stephen King

#19. I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

Dominic Monaghan

#20. And ultimately, when almost everything I did was controlled by the Superiors, by my teachers and by Paulo, I took what little control I could for myself and held onto it fiercely.

Lauren Nicolle Taylor

#21. What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?

Andre Dubus

#22. I held onto Caeden's neck with one hand and used the other to keep my dress from flashing my fanny at any unsuspecting woodland creatures. The sight might shock them to death.

Micalea Smeltzer

#23. I've held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That's my fashion stepchild.

Johnny Weir

#24. And for a moment he simply held her and she held onto him.
It might have been the most perfect moment of his life so far.

Julie Anne Long

#25. As I held onto Rosemary Telesco for dear life, we both knew the truth. She was going off to camp and eventually, private school. We were on different roads, she and me. Two ships that passed in Sheep Meadow.

Jennifer Flackett

#26. Dream pleasantly;the dreams we held onto, became a reality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

Joe Nichols

#28. Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Eddie Vedder

#29. Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto.

Jay Woodman

#30. While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

David Talbot

#31. I put myself back together as best as I could, but I was sure that parts of me were broken permanently. Dark parts of me. Parts that I'd held onto for far too long.

Laurelin Paige

#32. I felt Red's arm close around me like a shield against the rest of the world. His mouth was against my hair, and his heart thumped violently under my cheek. I shut my eyes, and held onto his shirt with both hands, and wept.

Juliet Marillier

#33. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.

Marie Rutkoski

#34. Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual. Hot butter melted off the slices of toast and dribbled onto their fingers.

Alex Nye

#35. Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see."
I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above his gun belt. "I'm good to go."
He was still for a beat. "You could have held on to my jacket," he said.
"Would you rather I do that?"
"No. Not even a little.

Janet Evanovich

#36. All I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, tight, and held on

Sarah Dessen

#37. I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I'd had as a little girl in my father's home.

Marie Lu

#38. Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

Patrick Ness

#39. I embraced that hope for a moment, grabbed onto it with both hands, and held it close like the rare treasure it was. Then I let go of it, let it float away like a butterfly on a bright day, because the darkest part of the night was yet to come, and there was no place for it here.

Jennifer Estep

#40. As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went.

Liu Cixin

#41. The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their shapes, became small piles of perfect asterisks and blooms tumbled together in their discrete geometries like children's blocks.

Peter Heller

#42. Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.

Robert B. Parker

#43. He held up a hand as we rounded a corner onto a busy street. "Red dragons?" I whispered. "No. Mimes.

Katie MacAlister