Shudders Quotes

#1. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.

Gayle Forman

#2. The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Agnes Repplier

#3. Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

Louis Kronenberger

#4. You're a demon, you know that?" he said with feeling. "When your feet hit the floor every morning, I'll bet the devil shudders and says 'Oh shit, she's awake'" Cael to Jenner

Linda Howard

#5. The lights disappear,
The elevator shudders,
Stalls,
Quits.
All in the same nanosecond.

All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think,
And Travis so close I can't breathe.

Elana Johnson

#6. Keeper!"
He inhaled slowly, took Azalea's outstretched hand-shudders went through her throat, he felt so solid-and pressed the brooch into her marked palm.
"I was only picking it up," he said, quietly. His thumb rubbed the red nail mark on her hand. A smile crossed his lips. "Temper, temper.

Heather Dixon

#7. All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

John James Audubon

#8. Only our pinkie fingers were laced together, but it was enough to send shudders of electricity through my hand.

Gabrielle Tozer

#9. The ship shudders as we make the leap, passing into grimspace. Pleasure spikes through me, as if I'm taking a hit of my favorite chem. It sings through my veins, echoing the mad whorl of colors outside the view screen. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's like entering the heart of a dying star.

Ann Aguirre

#10. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.

Sophie Jordan

#11. His eyes close. His hand trembles. "I am the star in the night sky. I am the blade in the twilight. I am the god, the glory." His breath shudders out. He is afraid. "I am the Gold." And

Pierce Brown

#12. I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

Saint Francis De Sales

#13. I reach through our tether, and he shudders at my touch.
Do you remember, Enzo? I think sadly. You were the Crown Prince of Kenettra. All you ever wanted was to save the malfettos and rule this nation.

Marie Lu

#14. I reach out and touch her cheek. She shudders under my hand, and dammit, I want to fuck her.

Roxy Sloane

#15. I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.

Anne Rice

#16. Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

Richard Rorty

#17. Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

James A. Michener

#18. Every single floorboard quivers and shudders under my feet, and I start mentally bargaining with the house: If I make it to the front door without waking up Aunt Carol, I swear to God I'll never slam another door. I'll never call you "an old piece of turd" again.

Lauren Oliver

#19. For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

Thomas Huxley

#20. Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Martin Gardner

#21. Hidden within the heart of every man is that small boy who shudders at those dread things who shuffle among the shadows

James D. Doss

#22. The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Ovid

#23. What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Peter Singer

#24. America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Max Lerner

#25. Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.

Susane Colasanti

#26. His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

Mary Balogh

#27. In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.

Carolyn Forche

#28. The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

Robert Bridges

#29. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#30. And I blink at the ceiling, seeing stars. "Holy fuck."
Her back shudders with a giggle. "It was kind of a religious experience, wasn't it?

Emma Chase

#31. The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Edgar Allan Poe

#32. A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

Georg Trakl

#33. You'll stop if I don't like it?" My heart squeezes. "Of course." I lean over him and plant a reassuring kiss on his lips, then wink at him. "Just say ballsack if you want me to stop." A wave of laughter shudders through him. "Oh shit. I totally forgot about that.

Sarina Bowen

#34. Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

Pamela Frankau

#35. Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, 'Oh shit, she's awake!

Nancy Naigle

#36. The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

Louis Aragon