Top 30 Rasp Quotes
#1. (Really, thought Lib, who ever died exultingly? Whatever fool penned that phrase had never sat by a bed with his ears pricked for the last rasp.) Aged
Emma Donoghue
#2. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.
Gustav Meyrink
#3. The soft rasp of her erratic breathing is erotic, enticing, and I can almost taste her desire.
Lisa Renee Jones
#4. I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.
Margaret E. Barber
#5. Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.
David Foster Wallace
#6. I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic, but tonight is my laundry night.
Sherman Alexie
#7. he felt a pang of desire for the tintinnabulation of a Georgia summer. Strange, he thought, to long for the rasp of day- and dusk-singing cicadas and the night singers, katydids.
Marly Youmans
#8. The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea.
Sergei Dovlatov
#9. Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.
Lauren Slater
#10. Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that the fibres of goethite are just the right size to make up a resilient composite structure.
Asa Baber
#11. They came like specters from the dark maw of the bayou, first ghostly light in the fog, then the rasp of a motor: an aluminum powerboat scudding across lacquer-black water.
Tom Cooper
#12. You made me feel what summertime really is. Underneath what's bright, you knew the hot dark rasp of it.
Ava Dellaira
#13. At sunrise of the third day, I saw the corpse's chest begin to rise and fall and I heard the first intake of breath - a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch.
Dan Simmons
#14. I don't want any more murdered women in my family, Raphael." It came out a painful rasp. "I've had enough.
Nalini Singh
#15. Wylan didn't think he imagined the tension in the rasp of Kaz's voice. Kaz never yelled the way Wylan's father did, but Wylan had learned to listen for that low note, that bit of black harmony that crept into Kaz's tone when things were about to get dangerous.
Leigh Bardugo
#16. A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand.
Jan Morris
#17. His voice still had the rasp of desire as he asked, "If I disappear, will you come and find me?
Dana Marton
#18. Occasionally, someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs.
Haruki Murakami
#19. the rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story,
Andy McNab
#20. Reaching back, I drew my blade, feeling it rasp free, gleaming
as it came into the light. Looking up at the approaching rabids, I
smiled.
Julie Kagawa
#21. He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust
J.M. Coetzee
#22. The rasp in his voice did her in. It wasn't the lazy boredom of a jackass who wanted a warm place to stick his dick. It was edgy.
Kit Rocha
#23. Why won't you let me kiss you, Anna?"
I can't breathe.
"Why, Anna?"
"It's too much," I rasp.
"Not when I want everything." He says it so deep and strong, a staking of a claim. "And I want everything with you, Anna.
Kristen Callihan
#24. I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
Eddie Redmayne
#26. I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home.
Kathy Lette
#27. Out of your league?! What fucking league are you talking about?! You are a man, she is a fucking woman! That is all that matters, goddamn it!
Justin Halpern
#28. I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
Francis Bacon
#29. I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
David Hockney
#30. Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier
