Top 32 Ribcage Quotes
#1. Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
Emma Thompson
#2. Without wonder, you are dead and I am older. The girl in the mirror looks devastated. Like someone really has pushed a brick through her ribcage.
Kirsty Eagar
#3. Ase waved it off, even though his heart hammered in his chest, trying to fly out of his ribcage and jump down Jase's throat to go stay with his heart forever and ever, amen.
Kade Boehme
#5. I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.
Fleur Adcock
#6. But I run, laughing, my speed increasing, the steady thump of my heart against my ribcage like the beat of a ceremonial drum. I'm back. And life is good.
Lisa Amowitz
#7. I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.
Diyar Harraz
#8. Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating.
Lauren Groff
#9. I can see he thinks he's the ultimate creation, and he seems to believe every woman here is his Eve, created from his ribcage for him to enjoy. I'm both aroused and infuriated, and this is the most confusing feeling I've ever felt in my life. Brooke Dumas, REAL
Katy Evans
#10. I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.
Andreas Deja
#11. He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
Thomas Harris
#12. I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.
Tom Stoppard
#13. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach ... just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
Stephen Colbert
#14. Sometimes," Brubeck bites into an apple, "sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just ... " Brubeck mimes a bomb going off in his ribcage. "Do you never get that feeling?
David Mitchell
#15. Love's a dictator. I know this, yet the blast furnace in my ribcage roars You You You You You You just the same, and there's bugger-all I can do about it.
David Mitchell
#16. But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands - to depart from his ribcage.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#17. There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.
Donna Tartt
#18. Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I'm yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.
Ben Goldacre
#19. Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.
Andrea Gibson
#20. Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.
Jeff Buckley
#21. Oliver's heart tried to pound its way out of his ribcage, but he ignored it. "I'm in love with Petunia," he announced. "And I want to help her.
Jessica Day George
#22. I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.
Nick Harkaway
#23. He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.
Daniel Silva
#24. Mothers are the first professors in the school of character.
Hugh B. Brown
#25. I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.
Beth Revis
#26. Sometimes, I get this familiar ache in my heart and a sense of stabbing emptiness around my ribcage. I don't even know what brings it on; it's just familiar like a horrible visitor. What brings me to my knees though, is the even bigger heart-hurt when I recognize this ghastly guest is back again.
Ruby Wax
#27. Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Joseph Joubert
#28. Drowned out by the sound of his heart throwing itself against his ribcage.
Amy Zhang
#29. I'm going to arrange you, if that's okay?"
I swallowed. "Uh ... sure." My hands were clutched to my ribcage, my shoulders hunched almost to my ears. What, this isn't how you want me positioned?
Tammara Webber
#30. If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.
Piper Payne
#31. Reacher glanced back. The guy on the right was about to transition from unconscious to concussed. The guy on the left was squirming halfheartedly and pawing at everything between his ribcage and his knees.
Lee Child
#32. You know what they say; all good things come to those who wait." "Never is a very long time to wait." He chuckled. "There's a lot to be said for delayed gratification, you know. Given half a chance, I'd delay yours for a very long time - hours maybe." "That's
Victoria Vane