Yanking Quotes

#1. Sweet bleedin' Jesus," Faolan exploded, snatching up the shirt and yanking it back down over her head in one fluid movement. "Do ye think to display yerself for every man on the
beach? Ye doona allow me to look and I'm bloody livin' with ye.

Shannon MacLeod

#2. But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

Andrew Motion

#3. I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that's what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.

Rachael Wade

#4. Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

J.R. Ward

#5. Deryl, we all make mistakes; we all get twisted in some way or another. Some of us do horrifying, evil things. But that doesn't make us evil, and yanking out a chunk of your personality isn't going to make you good. It just makes you incomplete.

Karina L. Fabian

#6. As always, my alarm went off too early, yanking me back into a world I wasn't quite prepared to deal with. I looked automatically toward the window as I sat up. Only three bloody crescents marked the spots where bluebirds had managed to slam themselves to death against the glass.

Seanan McGuire

#7. The answer to my thoughts is the loud ripping of my shirt when he tears it straight down my back, yanking it forward around my shoulders and imprisoning my arms in the sleeves.
"I've got you now," he says, breaking the kiss and sounding like a god about to unleash wrath.

Poppet

#8. It's just snow," Lesa said, rolling her eyes. "It's not going to hurt you."
Kimmy smoothed her hands over her blond hair. "Sugar melts."
"Yeah, and shit floats." Lesa took her seat, yanking out last night's English homework.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.

Lauren Beukes

#10. She swam to the shallow end of the pool and stood up, yanking the shrinking top
of the bathing suit up to a more demure level.
"That's a shame," Peter Jensen's cool voice emerged from the shadows. "I was
hoping gravity would win.

Anne Stuart

#11. But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Daniel Handler

#12. Heel," Steffen said, carelessly yanking Rune backwards by the collar of his sparkling white shirt. "Keep your paws to yourself, mutt.

K.M. Shea

#13. Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?
"Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

Derek Landy

#14. Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Ogden Nash

#15. Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan
"Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

Keri Arthur

#16. And you said you'd hate me forever," Jason teased as he tossed Taylor onto the bed.
She reached impatiently for his belt buckle, yanking him onto the bed with her. "This is angry sex - I actually don't like you at all.

Julie James

#17. Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

Jessamyn West

#18. What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!

Cassandra Clare

#19. I wasn't born an early bird.
It took three different alarms clocks blasting in my ear every morning to wake me up. And on special occasions when I'd sleep through the bird caws, beeping, and extreme drum solos, Stella would have the privilege of yanking me from my bed.

Joddie Zeng

#20. Reality is a gravitational pull, yanking us back down to earth when we least expect it.

Cassia Leo

#21. You can breathe, Emma," I teased. "Stop thinking of me naked and breathe." "Evan!" she hollered, yanking her foot away. I started laughing. I knew if she'd had something to throw at me, she would've.

Rebecca Donovan

#22. Are you okay?"
I sighed,my sodden coat chilling me to the bone. "Peachy.Made a new friend."
He pulled me up by the hand,unzipping my coat and yanking it off me.
"Shirt,too,please."
"No!"
"It's only fair. I seem to recall you making me strip the first time we met.

Kiersten White

#23. I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!

Kim Harrison

#24. Yanking at my leg, straining every muscle, my customized Gray Ghost rebuilt as a chopper sparks and squeals.
My boot catches and I'm flipped. Sliding down E-70 Highway on leather, my gloves scrubbed by the tarmac.

Poppet

#25. Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea.

Rainbow Rowell

#26. Arthur and Fred - "
"I'm George," said the twin at whom Moody was pointing. "Can't you even tell us apart when we're Harry?"
"Sorry, George - "
"I'm only yanking your wand, I'm Fred really -

J.K. Rowling

#27. 17 Interfering in someone else's argument is as foolish as yanking a dog's ears.

Anonymous

#28. The ground shifted again into an ocean of unknowns, a dark current yanking at a fundamental law she'd forgotten: there was no truth without a lie.

Emma Raveling

#29. In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Louise Penny

#30. Or perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again - giving me a taste of my old power before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!

Rick Riordan

#31. Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

Michelle Malkin

#32. Football really was my salvation in high school. For some kids it's art. For some it's music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team.

Rudy Ruettiger

#33. Combing her thoughts, yanking them into a pigtail.

Michael Chabon

#34. On the bed - now," he ordered, yanking the band of his shorts and dropping them on the floor. "I need to fuck right now more than I need to breath.

Alessandra Torre

#35. Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.

Dan Mathews

#36. I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#37. What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Steven Pressfield

#38. Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite Excuse me?

Adi Alsaid