Top 100 Tighter'n Quotes
#1. I can make it through the rain,
I can stand up once again,
on my own, and I know,
that I'm strong enough to mend,
and every time I feel afraid
I hold tighter to my faith,
and I live one more day
and I make it through the rain.
Mariah Carey
#2. The place was locked up tighter than my fist around a piece of bacon.
Donna Augustine
#3. I've got more talent than everyone on their payroll put together," I said. Jacob squeezed me tighter. His eyes never moved from mine. "I'm so far beyond level five it's not even funny.
Jordan Castillo Price
#4. Mel."
"Hmm?"
"Don't leave me again, okay?" Clay whispered in a voice choked with emotion as he pulled her tighter against him and tilted his head to rest his cheek on top of her head. "'Cause that 'bout killed me.
Kele Moon
#6. I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
Elena Ferrante
#7. I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble." Shahrzad gripped Irsa's hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. "But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.
Renee Ahdieh
#8. Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.
Marguerite Duras
#9. It's unfathomable how much I want you, Rylee." He pulls me tighter into him. "How much I'm drawn to you.
K. Bromberg
#10. Dark Fae are evil. They do evil things to each other, but there is an unspoken rule that you never harm family."
She held him tighter, wishing she could take away his pain with a hug. "Families hurt each other all the time.
Donna Grant
#11. An audible gasp went up from a nearby clutch of women whose fashion sense bound their thinking tighter than a whalebone corset.
Bob Larranaga
#12. She scooted up tighter and kissed him, hearing the stomp and rhythm of lust pulse in her blood. A rhythm as primitive as time.
D.D. Ayres
#13. Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you ... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you ... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.
Miles Franklin
#14. Don't worry, though, I'm sure you're still both tighter than the knots on a tree.
Nick Pageant
#15. Perhaps the body was not a cage that held the soul, but a hand that gripped it like a cane, appearing to guide it, to command it, but all the while dependent upon it, gripping it all the tighter the more that it needed it, finally letting it go.
Christopher R. Beha
#16. I grip my charm tighter. All I can think about is Yaqui Delgado's eyes, about what kind of cloak she wears, what kind of dagger she'll run through me.
Meg Medina
#17. I don't want to lose you."
He reaches for my hand and pulls me to him. "You are not going to lose me," he says, peering down at me. "I promise."
I want to believe him so badly. I need to believe him. "What if you lose me?"
He smiles at me, his grip hard. "Then I'll just hold on tighter.
Karina Halle
#18. He cupped her chin to still the movement. "Please, Ricky." he clutched her hand tighter to his chest. "Please... I'm not going anywhere." He leaned closer until his lips were mere millimetres from hers. "I promise.
Jacqueline Francis
#19. 'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.
Nick Harkaway
#20. Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job my friend/Money is tighter than it's ever been/Say man, I just don't understand/What's going on across this land
Marvin Gaye
#21. You bastard! Let me down!"
"Not on your life, beauty." The godlen claw gripped her tighter. "You get hurt, he'll kill me. Now quiet. I'm trying not to vomit."
Gwenvael to Annwyl
G.A. Aiken
#22. No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,
Leo Fender
#23. Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!
Marie Helvin
#24. My hands were gripping his arms, pulling myself tighter to him, my mouth glued to his and answering every unspoken question his asked.
Stephenie Meyer
#25. Let's stop hurting one another, ok?" He kisses the crown of my head and squeezes me tighter to his body. "Ok. But Gabriella?" "Yes?" "You talk in your sleep.
S.L. Jennings
#26. Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
Maria Semple
#27. Dan gripped tighter, increasing the pressure until the lowered eyes came up and met his. We're all going to Boston, but John and I have other business to take care of there.
Stephen King
#28. clasped tighter to him. I didn't even care. Mason was there. He was in my arms. He was holding me. My Christmas was complete. I tipped my head back, meeting his eyes and I whispered, a small tear appearing at my eye, "Thank you for
Tijan
#29. I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
Natalie Merchant
#30. You're not a thing in the dark," Kelly said under his breath.
"No." Nick clutched his fingers tighter. "But I can be."
Kelly stared at him for a long time, nodding, blue-gray eyes turning to quartz granite. "Then we'll be things in the dark together.
Abigail Roux
#31. I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.
Tana French
#32. The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.
Beyonce Knowles
#33. It's easy, Constance. All you have to do is believe." "Believe in what, Alice?" "Madness." I pull her tighter and jump.
Cameron Jace
#34. Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.
Dan Brown
#35. I squeeze my eyes shut tighter, trying to imagine another world again. A world where we're happy, where we're together, where we're away from all of this.
A world without a target on our backs.
A world where Naz comes home.
A world where we can live in peace.
A world that's just ours.
J.M. Darhower
#36. Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another, General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he made his way home.
Tom Reiss
#37. The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls
Aedan Byrnes
#38. Inauguration Security was tighter than Kirstie Alley in a pair of spandex pants.
Jay Leno
#39. I held her as the rain beat down on the car.
I held her tighter as it got worse.
I let go of her when it cleared.
And then I drove her home.
All while not saying a Goddamn word - because really - what was there left to say?
She said she couldn't be with me.
Jay McLean
#41. The whole weekend turned out to be one giant round of excruciating foreplay, and if he doesn't stop stalling and give me some relief pretty damn pronto, there's going to be a girl-parts rebellion the likes of which he's never seen. I'm wound tighter than Jane Fonda's latest facelift, goddammit.
Leisa Rayven
#42. Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate
Rem Koolhaas
#43. All my instincts tell me to cover and cherish you fiercely, with each breath, and work harder to make you mine. Each and every time you try and push me away, to put that guard of yours back up, I need to hold on tighter, chase faster. Until my arms are the ones you want to run into.
S.E. Hall
#44. This isn't important. Important happens on bended knees and is breathed on last breaths with hands clutched tight, hearts tighter. This is just a distraction.
Anonymous
#45. Why do people buy all this stuff?" He holds me a little tighter. "It's not so mysterious," he says. "It's so we remember to remember.
Nicola Yoon
#46. I was convinced that there was at least a seventy-three percent chance he was gay. I bumped it up from sixty-eight after our third game. Zack showed up wearing a light pink shirt that was tighter than usual.
Kyle Adams
#47. Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
Joan Jett
#48. You were right," I whisper. He sighs and I feel the air softly blow the back of my neck. He holds me tighter around my middle and buries his head into my back, his lips just barely touching the skin left exposed from my tank top. "I wish I wasn't.
Kandi Steiner
#49. Every hour of every day spent with him, the slow slope of falling for this boy in more than just a carnal fashion has been like slowly pulling the strings on some great tapestry. Every day the weave becomes tighter, the picture clearer, everything more complete.
A.L. Davroe
#50. I held his hand tighter and still squeezing I leant across and kissed his lips, the lips that apologised for his huff as they lovingly connected with mine, and I strained to keep at least one eye on the road.
Nicci Greene
#51. You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
Lowell Bergman
#52. My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I'm space bound. A rocket about to blast off. And I want Henry to send me to the moon.
Lauren Hammond
#53. Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#54. Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.
Kyle Cooper
#55. One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love, and they hug you back even tighter.
Chris Vonada
#56. I think a tighter bomb pattern is something really worth praying for.
Anonymous
#57. Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.
Riza Prasetyaningsih
#58. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.
George Orwell
#59. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.
Leigh Bardugo
#60. I start to pull back, but he hugs me tighter.
"You love me. You admitted it."
"I do love you."
His body trembles in response, as if he can't contain his emotions at my confession.
A.G. Howard
#61. ~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my mind: Trevor, my father, was going to die.
From that moment on, I was Chloe Kallistrate, a vampire hunter.~
Jennifer Malone Wright
#62. You don't turn your back on love." He went on without missing a beat. "Love isn't easy, not for anyone, but you don't push it away. You hold even tighter.
Cambria Hebert
#63. JESUS CHRIST, SHE WAS tight. The more I edged in, the tighter her body squeezed my cock, which inevitably sent pleasure spiraling through me.
Rachel Brookes
#64. Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
Ernie Els
#65. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
Dan Rather
#66. It was as if her heart was in a vise, squeezing tighter and tighter until she couldn't breathe. The worst part was she was the one who had tightened the screws.
Jenna Harte
#67. Teams that are moved by great purpose become tighter still when things are tough.
Eric Greitens
#68. With a small sigh he squeezed my hand tighter. "I wish you were like me.
Amber L. Johnson
#69. Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka. Plus it's tighter than a choker, got em smilin like the joker.
Nicki Minaj
#70. Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
Don Henley
#71. For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.
Sarah Dessen
#72. The more scared children are, the tighter they hug you.
Caitlin Moran
#73. Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.
Jessica Raine
#74. Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.
Pete Townshend
#75. The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
Thomas Friedman
#76. I hugged her tighter to me. "You're seriously breaking all my rules. You know that, right?"
Her smile just grew. "I'm beginning to get a clue.
Linda Kage
#77. I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
Janette Rallison
#78. The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.
Frederick Lenz
#79. The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.
Tom Robbins
#80. So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
Veronica Franco
#81. The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that I'm tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tighter and drag me back to the surface.
Kendall Kulper
#82. She lost herself in the kiss, moving her body against his, her excitement rising, the tension inside her spinning tighter and tighter.
Lynn Raye Harris
#83. Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don't know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you're staying right here.
Jennifer Lane
#84. Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.
Alan Vega
#85. I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.
Riz Ahmed
#86. No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
#87. There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.
Sherry Thomas
#88. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#89. In tougher times, when dollars are tighter, the next round of funding may never come.
Steven Gary Blank
#90. I don't care what he thinks. Only what you think." He holds me tighter. "Like if you think I need to stop biting my nails."
"You've worn your pinkies to nubs," I say cheerfully.
"Or if I need to start ironing my bed spread."
"I DO NOT IRON MY BED SPREAD."
"You do. And I love it.
Stephanie Perkins
#91. Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
Stephanie Perkins
#92. Because we are. Heather Jax. Me." I linked my hands and showed her my entwined fingers. "Like this. Tighter than your vagina ever was.
Tijan
#93. I stood in the rain, watching his car go. A string tied to it looped around my heart and pulled tighter and tighter until it sheared clean through.
Leah Raeder
#94. Really? Then why is it my memories from that time are locked up tighter than a virgin in an iron maiden chastity belt that's been welded shut? I had always had a way with words.
Eve Langlais
#95. You love me, but you don't want me," he said with such sadness, I burst into tears.
While crying, I had the biggest orgasm of my life as Luke held me tighter than ever and rocked into me and climaxed with me. He wiped at my tears.
"I didn't mean to make you cry," he said.
L.D. Davis
#96. Stanchion, n.
I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.
David Levithan
#97. I hung up the phone and tapped it lightly against my chin, then wrapped myself tighter in my giant woolen cardigan and poured another glass of boxed wine - the official drink of emotionally confused women on a budget.
Heather Cocks
#98. House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
Avicii
#99. I'm here, Emma. I'll never let you go, he whispered in my ear , holding me tighter.
Rebecca Donovan
#100. And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.
Daisy Fuentes
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