Quotes About Jittering

#1. Frohike ... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of nerves if Scully ever consented to go out with him.

Kevin J. Anderson

#2. Bet it was some ride." Theo manfully swallowed the prickly lump in his throat. There was a
jittering inside his chest that came as much from seeing his father break apart as from anxiety over
Maddy. "I'll haul her in, Dad. You're going to wreck your arm

Nora Roberts

#3. Eve, we're going to be married in a few days."
The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah."
"If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

J.D. Robb

#4. Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us:
God is love.
Not the parched face and gnarled
capes across a stick body; jittering
in the nude sky, we couldn't see
trying to touch us
for the blood in our eyes.

Joseph Bathanti

#5. The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#6. My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.

David Levithan

#7. Are we going to do the best we can by tolerating this unwanted enemy or do we make a stand of defiance?" The

Adeodata O. Warner

#8. Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do.

C. Terry Warner

#9. Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?

Jasper Fforde

#10. We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Piper Kerman

#11. Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start.

Stanislaw Lem

#12. We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

Stuart R. Levine

#13. Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood.

Emmuska Orczy