Top 100 Quotes About Tangle
#1. Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#2. I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart.
Rachel Vincent
#3. She didn't know if she cried for what she'd lost as a teenager, or for the confused tangle of emotions inside her now. Either way, Mike telling her that he was sorry against the top of her head was the only answer that made any sense.
Lauren Gilley
#4. The roast meat the animal had snatched was only a semblance. It was more than food, it was a meal not for human witness, a tangle of viscera, a species of human sacrifice - as if Emerence were feeding the actual person to the dog, along with all her fond memories and feelings.
Magda Szabo
#5. They were a tangle of limbs on the bed, limbs and f lesh and bodies entwined so fully, joined so deeply, that it was as if they were sealed together. The heat had melted and merged them. They weren't even human now, but sex in its rawest, purest form.
Anonymous
#6. Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#7. Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#8. I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
Shana Alexander
#9. To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
#10. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
Emily Murdoch
#11. English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Roy Blount Jr.
#12. From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came,
H.P. Lovecraft
#13. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.
Ezra Pound
#14. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
#15. And then the fiery tangle of hair was no longer connected to the rest of her body. The shivering orange waves fell to the ground, and bounced once before rolling toward the trees.
Stephenie Meyer
#16. Bliss braided it's way through her, explosive and terrifying. Every pain she'd endured over the years disappeared from memory. Their mouths made seamless, perfect fit. Every tilt, every breath, every tangle of their tongues was as if she'd found where she belonged.
Robin Bielman
#17. I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.
Sally Gardner
#18. Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.
Amy Stewart
#19. There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Isn't a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don't you wish to be in a tangle of limbs?
Rick Moody
#21. It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
Alfred North Whitehead
#22. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#23. Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsing pillar of passion, a mammoth mail member, a cocky cobra ready to tangle with my vaginal mongoose.
I also needed to think about upgrading my reading. My imagery was actually starting to bother me.
Alice Clayton
#24. And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
Lauren Oliver
#25. she thinks about lying in here with alex, of the tangle of arms and rope, or lips.
Emily Franklin
#26. It seemed to him that he both knew too much to imagine [the child's] simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.
Henry James
#27. Jay's large body covered her. Oh God, the welcome weight of him. His mouth descended on hers, not asking, not seeking, but demanding she meet his need. She wrapped her arms around his neck and arched up into him as her tongue darted into his mouth, met his, and mated in a hot, heady tangle.
Kate Kelly
#28. No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
Terry Pratchett
#29. As he presses me against the car and his fingers tangle in my hair, I find myself hoping-and fearing-that I'll never be the object of such a love, one that could bring a man to his knees and never let him stand again.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#30. Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.
Jonathan Odell
#31. A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#32. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.
Jon Krakauer
#33. For no man would have touched her like that before. Eventually, she would be eager and responsive to him. Oh, so responsive. They would kiss, and it would be electric - intense - explosive. Their tongues would tangle and tango together desperately, as if they had never kissed before.
Sylvain Reynard
#34. The storm had come out of nowhere, tossing the ship like a toy on the waves. The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men.
Leigh Bardugo
#35. Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
John Updike
#36. Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.
Denise Levertov
#37. Because that's what families do for each other. They support each other, whether they agree with the other person's decisions or not. It's called love." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#38. How old are you?"
"Ten," answered Tangle.
"You don't look like it," said the lady.
"How old are you, please?" returned Tangle.
"Thousands of years old," answered the lady.
"You don't look like it," said Tangle.
"Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!
George MacDonald
#39. His hands grasped her waist and lifted her until she could have sworn that his feet had come off the ground, too; that they were floating up above the creek, above the trees, above the burning hillside, into the dense tangle of stars, about to kiss the moon.
Lauren Kate
#40. If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth. Mothers-to-be should
Diane Ackerman
#41. Referees need help. Players are getting faster and fitter and too many referees are making decisions from behind the play. They see a tangle of legs, they are asked to make a decision with one, often obscured look at high speed.
Andy Townsend
#42. He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.
Stephen Fry
#43. Alexander's top generals were about to tangle with one of history's toughest teenage girls.
James Romm
#44. Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
Gail Z. Martin
#45. They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.
Megan Abbott
#46. Relationships
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
Ancient Chinese proverb
Aminta Arrington
#47. I didn't want to write this
even to think of you
afraid the thought would curl
would tangle & make you
common & factual as light.
Jake Adam York
#48. Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
Valerie Miner
#49. The relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
Jodi Picoult
#50. I tug his head down to mine. "I need you, Reed. Don't make me beg."
And just like that, he gives in. One hand comes up to tangle in my hair while the other pulls me roughly against him. "You don't ever have to ask again. I'll give you anything you want.
Erin Watt
#51. A tangle, you know, is more powerful than a single thread alone.
Anne Nesbet
#52. He'd left me for a time. He'd doubted me, but now he was mine again and I wanted to keep him here in a tangle of limbs and bedsheets until I'd quieted every last voice and we were only right again.
Paula McLain
#53. It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.
Joseph Sobran
#54. In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
Alfred Austin
#55. I'd kiss you but I don't want our beards to tangle.
Penny Reid
#56. I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener
#57. Because the least painful part of an affair is the tumble and tangle of body parts. The agony is in the guts. In the reasons behind it.
Jessica Hawkins
#58. Here, just below the Earth's summit, there are towns and villages, a tangle of human lives, in the shadow of Arctic eschatology.
Sarah Moss
#60. With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304)
Boyd K. Packer
#61. So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?
Hilari Bell
#62. I want to hear one more of your stories
Tangle up in your dreams, give up the fight
'Pour one more glass of that wine
And I might not go home tonight...
Becky Wicks
#63. Noelle slid up Rachel's body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. "Ace has to make his choice," she murmured, stroking Rachel's lips. "He doesn't get to lock you away from pleasure because he's all tangle up. You're made for joy.
Kit Rocha
#64. Sometiimes when you look at a person all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave
Jonathan Odell
#65. Deveels are some of the meanest characters you'd ever not want to tangle with. They're some of the most feared and respected characters in the dimensions."
"Are they warriors? Mercenaries?"
Aahz shook his head.
"Worse!" he answered. "They're merchants.
Robert Asprin
#66. Their legs tangle together real easy. His hand goes over hers, fingers interlacing. So natural, too, as though they'd never said a harsh word to one another in their lives.
Charlotte Stein
#67. It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.
Augusten Burroughs
#68. She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
Edith Wharton
#69. I find hair things really hard because I can't do my own hair. The only thing I use for my hair is a Tangle Teezer. It's the best thing ever for everyone that has long hair.
Lara Stone
#70. Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.
Janet Beizer
#71. Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
Heraclitus
#72. Inhaling deeply, Evan pressed his face to the soft tangle of Jamie's hair.
You had me at that first 'fuck you'.
Finn Marlowe
#73. The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope.
Juliet Marillier
#74. Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That's progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.
Odysseus Elytis
#75. If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.
Fred Bear
#76. Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.
Glenda Millard
#77. She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.
Charles De Lint
#78. My father used to say that it's not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they'll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.
Judy Davis
#80. You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.
Ingrid Law
#81. Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
Arthur Lismer
#83. I once read that there is an invisible thread that connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break. [ ... ] Please don't let it break, I silently plead to him. I need to know that some cords can't be cut.
Tarryn Fisher
#84. Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs - a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle.
Jonathan Franzen
#85. I couldn't afford to tangle myself up in other people's expectations and inevitable disappointment. It would be awful. An ever-expanding cycle of everyone feeling bad, like a bulimic serpent eating its own tail.
Alexis Hall
#86. Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.
Saru Singhal
#87. And nobody wanted to tangle with my wolf from what I'd heard. She had a nasty temper and represented my alter ego with a proud wag of her tail.
Dannika Dark
#88. The human heart is like a big mess of embroidery silks, and the more you pull, the more they tangle. The thing is, the threads have only got one end, if that. You can't sort them all out into colors. You just pick the ones you want and hold one to them as best you can.
Rose Lerner
#89. It's just like unraveling a tangle when you don't know where the knots are, and you don't know what the web looks like. But as you work on one section, it is connected to everything.
Kamailelauli'I Rafaelovich
#90. So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and tangle, and the path is never clear.
Lauren Oliver
#91. Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#92. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Rumi
#93. Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
Primo Levi
#94. Afraid of the tangle of words twisting around my own tongue, I swallow and place my hand against the thick wood of the Barrier.
Carrie Ryan
#95. You know I'm always happy to tangle in the sheets with you, Amren,
Sarah J. Maas
#96. There the beloved red sweater,
bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber.
Each confirming: I chose these, I.
But habit is different: it chooses.
And we, it's good horse,
opening our mouths at even the sight of the bit.
Jane Hirshfield
#98. Then my rescuer turned to look at me and I felt his eyes reach right down into my guts and tangle them up in knots.
With that look I knew I'd jumped straight from the kettle into the fire.
April White
#99. He led me out of that tangle of alleys in another direction, it seems, for when we sighted a lamp-post we were in a half-familiar street with monotonous rows of mingled tenement blocks and old houses. Charter Street, it turned out to be, but I was too flustered to notice just where we hit
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
Robert E. Howard
