Swallowed Quotes

#1. While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.

Painful change just takes time.

Jessica Watts

#2. Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#3. When did he pass out lastnight?" Eric asked Myrna.
"After he swallowed my banana and I forced him to consume my fluids.

Olivia Cunning

#4. Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.

Judi McLeod

#5. Tell me you don't feel what I feel."
"That doesn't matter." She swallowed hard.
"It does to me." I brush my lips against hers.

Christine Fonseca

#6. Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Lady Gaga

#7. Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Thomas De Quincey

#8. Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.
We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough ...

Charles Bukowski

#9. Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That's how we overcome, most of the time. It's not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. You smell so good." His eyes were closed, and his voice was a low, rummy drawl. "Like clover."
She swallowed. "I don't even know what clover smells like."
"Then you need a good roll in it.

Tessa Dare

#11. And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Richard Matheson

#12. All that damn therapy you made me go through - and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to reach your heaven." I looked at the door. "That bad huh?" "What?" "You like her that much?" "No." I swallowed. "I love her.

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

#14. I swallowed, feeling my pulse race, and gave silent thanks that there were no eyewitnesses to my blushing, which could have set a cigar alight even a foot away.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. His neck is thin, and his Adam's apple prominent, as though he has swallowed a peach pit at some point in his life and it has been lodged there ever since.

Lauren Oliver

#16. Thanatos swung around. "Death." Cara swallowed. Audibly. "As in, the Grim Reaper?" He snorted. "That poser. He deals with evil souls.

Larissa Ione

#17. Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Harry S. Truman

#18. I'm Jace." He let her see his own fangs. "And you're mine." A claim made before all the wolves in the room. From now on, any wolf who touched her would face him - and death.
She swallowed and tilted her head back to better meet his stare. "Hello, husband."
The wolf within growled ... Mine.

Cynthia Eden

#19. When Tucker glanced in Becca's direction and saw her watching, he smiled and winked. That one move, just a wink, made her knees go weak. She swallowed hard and knew with complete certainty, she was going to do it - she was going to spend the night with him.

Cat Johnson

#20. Your father, madam, was fully cremated. I made absolutely certain."
Alexia swallowed silently and then said fervently, "Thank you, Floote.

Gail Carriger

#21. when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here, the books I have written will still be here, and with them like those before me, I will live forever as long as one person reads one page of my world.

Shawn Hilton

#22. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!

Charles Dickens

#23. The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a ... person ... when you want to be touched and the ... two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.

Theodore Sturgeon

#25. It's like he took the words right out of the deepest, most secretive part of my heart, the tiny room that's always locked up with the key swallowed for good measure.

Steph Campbell

#26. Wouldn't
" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

Tamora Pierce

#27. Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed. Wrecked. 'Let's go,' she said, rising to her feet. 'The hairdresser.

Philip K. Dick

#28. Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel ... which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of an
actress to save her life! She was on her own.

Jill Shalvis

#29. You're incredible. I can feel your power and it's more than anything I ... Violet," he swallowed, watching me in awe. "It's like ... It's like you're as powerful as an angel."
-Lincoln

Jessica Shirvington

#30. When she kissed his mouth, she tasted blood and swallowed it.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#31. Chiggen grinned, showing yellow teeth, and swallowed the raw meat in two bites. "Tastes well bred." "Better if you fry it up with onions," Bronn put in.

George R R Martin

#32. You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.

Rudy Francisco

#33. The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.

Kim Novak

#34. If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

William Jennings Bryan

#35. waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#36. Vivian walking into a room and lighting it up so much it felt as if I had swallowed a tiny piece of the sun.

Haleigh Lovell

#37. Oh, father!" he said, "how the fear and oppression of ages are gone like a cloud swallowed up of space. Oh, father! are not all human ills doomed thus to vanish at last in the eternal fire of the love-burning God? - An

George MacDonald

#38. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.

Ben Aaronovitch

#39. She ran up the hill toward the woods. The moon watched her every step, bathing her in silver suspicion. She ignored it for now. The trees swallowed her up, hiding her

Edward W. Robertson

#40. As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. "And just what the hell did he mean by 'my erratic behavior'?"
Ian just looked at me. Yasha and Calvin stared straight ahead and didn't say a word.
I glared at all of them.

Lisa Shearin

#41. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

#42. I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Keith Haring

#43. That's the most mysterious thing about love - it takes hold of you whether you're ready or not."
She swallowed. "But it hurts."
"It's supposed to. Otherwise, you wouldn't notice.

Stephanie Bond

#44. In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky ... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon.

Neil Gaiman

#45. I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

Jim Butcher

#46. If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Tisha Venturini

#47. I had now swallowed my tea. I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.

Charlotte Bronte

#48. I could swear I'd just swallowed the sun.

Melissa Darnell

#49. But no one wants that anymore. People want a choice." Maxon shook his head. "You're terrifying to him, but he can't expel you. They adore you, America.
I swallowed. "Adore?"
He nodded. "And ... I feel similarly. So, no matter what he says or does, don't lose faith, this isn't over.

Kiera Cass

#50. You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.

Brandon Mull

#51. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.

Lisa Kleypas

#52. Mongols were "a race of people on the path to extinction, incapable of progress, doomed to be swallowed up by their neighbors.

Willard Sunderland

#53. In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick indifference of a god.

Chris Cleave

#54. Another moment or two of suffocated silence, and Hunt swallowed hard before speaking in a rusty-sounding voice. I probably shouldn't ask. But what the hell are you doing?

Lisa Kleypas

#55. That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Alvah Bessie

#56. It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.

Nora Roberts

#57. I seem to have been cross, somehow, all the time when I was a girl. I was horrid ... You're supposed to grow out of horridness, aren't you? I don't think I ever grew out of mine. Sometimes I think it's still inside me, like something nasty I swallowed that got stuck.

Sarah Waters

#58. The sinking of the Gustloff is the largest maritime disaster, yet the world still knows nothing of it. I often wonder, will that ever change or will it remain just another secret swallowed by war? You

Ruta Sepetys

#59. Being a bear brings us more freedom." He tilted his glass and swallowed its contents. "Sometimes I'd sooner stay a bear.

Vonnie Davis

#60. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

Helen Hollick

#61. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Aesop

#62. The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

David Novak

#63. I've swallowed fish-eyes whole
like an endoscope.
I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin.
Felt like a shark eating another shark,
inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Yann Rousselot

#64. The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims - swallowed by the sea of greed.

John-Talmage Mathis

#65. That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.

Zadie Smith

#66. The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#67. Zane swallowed hard as he slid his hand to take Ty's and lace their
fingers together. "Are you feeling this, too?" he asked, echoing what they'd
asked each other months ago, only to have it pushed aside. But not forgotten.

Abigail Roux

#68. It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved.

Kellie Elmore

#69. Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer ... Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#70. I love you, Gwenny. Please don't leave me, said Gideon. That was the last thing I heard before a great void swallowed me up.

Kerstin Gier

#71. Nikki "Brandon's never hurt anyone. He's competely sweet and adorable."
I choked a little on the sip of sparkling water I'k just swallowed. If Brandon was sweet and adorable, I was Satan's bride.

Meg Cabot

#72. I made bitterness into a wad and swallowed it. I

Maya Angelou

#73. Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you? (Callie)
Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#74. How am I making you feel?"
She considered the answer. "Like all my nerve endings are on fire. Like I want more, but I don't exactly know how to ask for what I want." She swallowed. "Or maybe I do.

Rebecca York

#75. I thought I would change the worlds. What young fool doesn't? Instead, I have been swallowed by the machine of this vast empire as it rumbles inexorably on.

Pierce Brown

#76. No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.

Alexander McCall Smith

#77. God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

Nas

#78. Do you think I'm fat?" I asked him.
He swallowed and wiped his mouth. "I think you're beautiful.

Simmone Howell

#79. We both know there's a ways to go. I'm going to trust you to help me get there."She swallowed, took a deep breath and gave him a ghost of a smile. "But when I do, I'm going to learn to take care of you right back, Captain Winston. So you'd better watch out.

Joey W. Hill

#80. Every time I look at you, I'm either so pissed I can't stand the sight of you or so fucking horny I can't take my eyes off you. I don't think I have to tell you which I prefer.
I swallowed. "So which is it now?"
I'm looking at you aren't I?

L.A. Witt

#81. Tool glanced over his shoulder, looking to see if the girl might have changed her mind, but she was gone. Swallowed up by the land. The Drowned Cities ate its children.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#82. Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of the universe, reminded Milo of how small he was, how minute a single life was - just

A.G. Riddle

#83. gotten off easy, okay?" Lisa swallowed hard as her cheeks burned.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#84. The demon was turning out to be an unpredictable, feral, bone-and-head-collecting, sexually ravenous happiness battery. She swallowed. All I have to do is plug him in.

Kresley Cole

#85. Judith, you sound
horrible. What's the matter with your voice? Are you coming down with something?"
Judith shook her head. "I'm all right."
"You sound like you swallowed a frog.

Julie Garwood

#86. I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.

Annabel Pitcher

#87. In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

Alfred North Whitehead

#88. I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game!

Phil Robertson

#89. And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.

Deyth Banger

#90. When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.

Kato Lomb

#91. A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.

Elise Blackwell

#92. My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds.

Tahereh Mafi

#93. No, that's because there are more interesting things to do."
Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies"
Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

Alane Ferguson

#94. She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and the feel of that glorious, curving belly under the palm of her hand-but she could still be a mother. That was the important thing.

Sarah Pekkanen

#95. Let's not pretend you were some innocent little lamb," he scowls. "You gladly swallowed my cock.

Nina G. Jones

#96. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.

Kathleen Winter

#97. Misty started to shake. "Oh, right. Don't worry. I was sitting here tied up, and you get shot, and you don't want me to worry." She swallowed, her throat dry. The thin-walled shack with its many cracks was like an oven. "You're a shithead, Graham.

Anonymous

#98. When was the last time he'd been swallowed whole by love?

Jodi Picoult

#99. I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say," I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.

Julia J. Gibbs

#100. Whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's (whale's) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed

Herman Melville