Body Quotes - Page 149

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more

... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.

Yes, but if we hurt the Abadonna in the process, we’re going to find out what it feels like to be turned inside out. Literally. Like most beings, I actually like the fact that my skin is outside my body. (Urian)

The man doesn’t want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn’t anger him. I’ve seen what he can do and it’s the stuff horror movies are made of. Body part flailing, blood. Lots of blood and torture. (Berith)

You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don’t die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)

What are you doing here? (Jericho) Do my accommodations offend you? I’ve grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden)