Protective Instincts Quotes

#1. The woman brought out his protective instincts to the point he couldn't think straight sometimes. He'd never felt like that about anyone and it was jarring. Sometimes he wondered if he got a taste of her if it would slake the need he always seemed to have for her.

Katie Reus

#2. I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you're going to be. - It puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

Ivana Hruba

#3. In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?

Helen Oyeyemi

#4. Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato?

Rain Oxford

#5. Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Warren De La Rue

#6. It was only then that I realized that poor Ms. Rubin's blouse and skirt were completely covered in my blood.

R.J. Palacio

#7. It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

John Pipkin

#8. The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Shereen El Feki

#9. We're an ecological disaster."
"Exactly," said the expendable.

Orson Scott Card

#10. I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#11. Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Mason Cooley

#12. The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

Bradley Whitford

#13. It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

Walter Scott

#14. I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

Agnieszka Holland

#15. In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

Kristin Armstrong

#16. 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

Amy Bloom