Knuckled Quotes

#1. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

Mervyn Peake

#2. ~EDITORIAL REVIEW~
" ... Wickard will have readers on edge ..."
" ... a methodical, white-knuckled grip of the throat, the tension getting tighter."
"A leisurely paced but ultimately rewarding, riveting thriller."

Douglas Wickard

#3. The kind of late where the 99% effective warnings on the side of condom boxes flashed before my eyes as I white knuckled my way down the 405, silently screaming, why me? Why, oh why me? I'm a new millennium girl. I took copious notes in 6th grade Sex Ed.

Gemma Halliday

#4. My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].

Rachel Kushner

#5. He struggled, knuckled his eyes, and let the words come. I want you to be mine, wholly mine, your heart, too. I want you to feel the same way.

Marie Rutkoski

#6. It's sad how things devolve, how if you hear just the early part of Freddie and Veronica's story, this romantic romp between a blue-eyed guitarist and knobby-knuckled songstress, you imagine they'll go on forever.

Michele Young-Stone

#7. Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.

Richard Russo

#9. Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it's all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God's presence.

Randy Alcorn

#10. You forgot your dress," Renny said, staring straight ahead while he white-knuckled the control wheel and jettisoned toward the security checkpoint.
"Never let anyone tell you," she panted, "that I don't know how to make an exit.

Melissa Landers

#11. Diello was busy peering at each of the jewels in turn. He found the one containing Amalina. He gave its locking spell a swift twist, and crimson smoke hit him in the face. When it cleared, Amalina was standing there. She knuckled her eyes, looking bewildered, then hugged his legs.

C. Aubrey Hall

#12. Shit. Shit. Shit. He'd known he couldn't save her. He'd known he was too far away. Knowing didn't prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

Dani Harper

#13. I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

Elton John

#14. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Poppy Z. Brite

#15. And I learnt five new languages in the last three years"

"Only if you could for once understand the language of my eyes.

Sapan Saxena

#16. What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.

Robert William Case

#17. I killed a couple of people," Scooter said. "Wanna play cards?

Forrest Carr

#18. In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Henry A. Kissinger