The Swoon Quotes

#1. Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness

D.H. Lawrence

#2. A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.

Charles Portis

#3. In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. He had the right mix of pissed-off male and swoon-worthy alpha to make any girl's heart go pitter-patter.

Chelle Bliss

#5. I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.

Judy Blundell

#6. No one would ever make the mistake of calling this guy cute. This guy was sexy. Incredibly, dangerously, devastatingly sexy.

Katrina Abbott

#7. Swoon, Dora. Every young woman deserves to swoon over the love of her life.

Nancy Moser

#8. Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

James Joyce

#9. Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

William Butler Yeats

#10. I understood the meaning of the word swoon - I had become the very definition.

Lauren Blakely

#11. The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.

Suzy Kassem

#12. He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

Sarah Scheele

#13. A land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon,

Richard Adams

#14. Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me; I wanted her to talk to me. And I felt it then: this strange, inexplicable sense that she might be the only person in the world I could really care about.

Tahereh Mafi

#15. Felix's beauty devastates him, annihilates every fiber of his being, and the voices shout in his head, they sing to him until he thinks his head will split.

T.J. Klune

#16. Instantly, Lucinda fell to the floor in a swoon-" Bronwyn groaned. "Not again!

Karen Hawkins

#17. Coffee would be great," I say. Dick would be better, though. He leans forward and kisses me softly on the lips. "See you soon, love." Fucking. Swoon.

Karina Halle

#18. I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.

Colleen Hoover

#19. It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes.
"And does the accent work on you?

Nichole Chase

#20. And, Jesus, she's a good kisser. So good I want to beat the hell out of whoever taught her.

Trish Doller

#21. but Kyler...yeah, he put the 'oo' in swoon.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more ... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

Beeban Kidron

#23. This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)

Nina Malkin

#24. Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Georgette Heyer

#25. He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.

Thomas Hardy

#26. I pointed, still unable to utter a word. Tim looked down at the spectacle behind the shed, his face swiftly draining of color. He gripped my arm with a clammy hand. And then he did something I'd been waiting half my life to see: he dropped into a dead swoon at my feet.

Rosie Genova

#27. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

Mark Twain

#28. Mr. Segundus began to suspect that they had an uneventful morning, and that when a strange gentleman had walked into the room and dropt down in a swoon, they were rather pleased than otherwise.

Susanna Clarke

#29. In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Edgar Allan Poe

#30. Sometimes the news so shocks the mind that the brain suffers an electrical short. This phenomenon is known as a "psychogenic" syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.

Paul Kalanithi

#31. His lips hovered near my ear as he sang to me in that beautiful gravel of a voice, In my arms I hold the only thing that matters ... in my arms I hold the entire world ... in my arms is my heart and soul.

Cassandra Giovanni

#32. Men know the damage a few words can do to girls' hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us

Gregoire Delacourt

#33. My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

Kevin Kwan

#34. Who loves you, Warren Valentine? She did. I want Lilla to know that kind of love. The kind of love that never leaves or abandons.

Pella Grace

#35. I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#36. The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love's sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless'd source of love.

Francis Of Assisi

#37. Beth knew in that instant that she was not a true lady, and never would be. A true lady would have fallen out of her chair in a gentle swoon or screamed down the opera house. Instead, Beth leaned into Ian's touch, liking it.

Jennifer Ashley

#38. There is a reason ladies swoon over rogues. They are dominant personalities," Jason said. "And they fall for soldiers because of the powerful image they put out.

Sarah M. Eden

#39. Somehow in the course of sixty seconds, this guy has managed to swoon me, then terrify the hell out of me.

Colleen Hoover

#40. He didn't want me to get hurt? Wow. Just wow. I might actually be close to a swoon here

Jessica Verday

#41. I don't want any other girl." He shook his head and took a step closer, cupping my face in his hands. "I belong with you and you belong with me.

Magan Vernon

#42. I'm an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.

Sarah Noffke

#43. I judged you unfairly when I met you."
"But you still wanted to kiss me?"
He shrugged, a smirk turning up the right corner of his mouth. "I'm a guy.

Katrina Abbott

#44. Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

Richard Wright

#45. Oh, for crying out loud," she said. "Were you fools any more chivalrous I'd surely swoon on the spot and damage my uterus.

Ian Tregillis

#46. She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin - she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.
-Benedict's thoughts

Julia Quinn

#47. The best listeners listen between the lines.

Nina Malkin

#48. He was so handsome. I nearly wanted to swoon. The word swoon had never even popped into my head before I saw him that night, let alone as something that I might do.

Gabrielle Zevin

#49. I want to be buried in those depths in an unmarked grave. I want to get lost in the gray fog of his gaze and never find my way home. I seriously almost fucking swoon. And how often does that happen? Yeah, never.

C.M. Stunich

#50. Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want."
"I don't need any of that. Just ... " He dropped Nikolai's hand and looked away. "Deserve her.

Leigh Bardugo

#51. You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.

Nina Malkin

#52. That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?"
"There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?"
She smiled at him. "She does.

Cassandra Clare

#53. I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man.

A. Giannoccaro

#54. Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then," said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

Cassandra Clare

#55. Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.

Renee Ahdieh

#56. If you burn away my bones, my love for him would remain, tattooed in the air.

Lia Riley

#57. Let every lady in Camlochlin swoon over a charming smile. She had won the love of a man who shared his most intimate smiles for her alone

Paula Quinn

#58. Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

Lisa Kleypas

#59. I don't want a girl, or a woman, or a supermodel. I want you.

Nicole Williams

#60. Call it swoon, or call it hypnosis--but that it is never absolute, and that all of us sometimes have awareness of our condition, and moments of wondering what it's all about and why we do and think the things that sometimes we wake up and find ourselves doing and thinking. Upon

Charles Fort

#61. What if the girls on the squad realize I swoon over Peter Parker or that I secretly wish our uniforms included a cape

Leah Rae Miller

#62. Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I'm glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I'd close my eyes if I weren't afraid I'd miss a second of his performance.

Cassie Graham

#63. Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.

Eva Walker

#64. It's the rhythm of my heart, Eve. Listen carefully. It's beating like this because of you.

Jess Dee

#65. Holy swoon-gate!' Elliot exclaims when I finally get to the end of my tale. 'If that's what Brooklyn boys are like I'm emigrating as soon as possible!

Zoe Sugg

#66. Mia looked over the new bruises on Tric's face, shook her head. 'My brave centurion. Riding in on his charger to save his poor damsel? Hold me, brave sir, I fear I shall swoon.

Jay Kristoff

#67. A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

Margaret Atwood

#68. To put it simply, he makes me swoon like it's his damn job.
He's the only man who's ever affected me like this, and it's safe to say I hold it against him. It's inconvenient and rude.

Leisa Rayven

#69. Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

Martin Buber

#70. This isn't just chemistry. It's the whole periodic table." ~Cain

Kelly Moran

#71. You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

Rainbow Rowell

#72. Your voice so sweet and tender whispers lovely lullabies.
Making me swoon in awe as we dream under the night skies.
Leaving me nostalgic until we both say our goodbyes.
Kissing away our dreams as we wipe the tears from our eyes.
Wishing upon each star until the sunrise.

Raneem Kayyali

#73. The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty.

Alyson Foster

#74. I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment I left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.

J.A. Huss

#75. [ ... ] Because I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses.

Colleen Hoover

#76. This is for you, for us. I wanted a tattoo of you on my skin, because I can't show you the one you've already left on my heart.

Gina L. Maxwell

#77. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

Patrick Rothfuss

#78. But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Camille Pissarro

#79. I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Alan Rickman

#80. I know why you want to wear the plum," Marcelline said. "It's ravishing. It'll make Longmore swoon."
"It might make him do some things," Sophy said. "But swooning isn't one of them. He's the sort of man who tells a girl he l-loves her - and then l-laughs. As though
it's a j-joke.

Loretta Chase

#81. When he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life's mystery.

Kate Chopin

#82. Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

Stephanie Perkins