“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”

“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer

“Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”

Percival Everett book I Am Not Sidney Poitier

“See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

“Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

“Interview "Cosmopolitan Sofia":
If there were a fire in your house, what would be the first thing you would take away with you?
- I would take away my legs.”

Sofia Rotaru (1947) Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author of Moldavian origin

“No one knows how I feel,
What I say unless you read between my lines,
One man walked away from me
First he took my hand, take me home.”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper