Quotes about head
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“Natalya asked, "How'd you escape all the vampires out for your head?"

In a monotone voice, Lothaire stated, "I'mgood.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

“Knock her dead, my man."
"Oh no." Xcor shook his head."That shan't be necessary. This one I like.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The King

Dead

“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”

Milan Kundera book The Festival of Insignificance

Source: The Festival of Insignificance

World, Time

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“Do you remember what I told you that first time at Taki's? About faerie food?"
"I remember you said you ran down Madison Avenue naked with antlers on your head", said Clary, blinking silver drops off her lashes.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Food, Time

“What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.”

Brandon Mull The Candy Shop War

Source: The Candy Shop War

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Feeling, Perfection

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Way, Boy

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Life, Way, Reality, Heart

“What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Love, People

“I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls back as soon as she’s done getting her way.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

Way

“He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis"

"Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Singing

“He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.
I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.”

Raymond Chandler book Pearls are a Nuisance

"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
Source: Pearls are a Nuisance

“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love, Pain, People, Heart

“As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat.
"Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Horse

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Heart, Night

“What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Life, Children, Guy, Success

“I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.
On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

People, Perseverance

“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Love

“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Cats

“Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?'
it must be here. they can't have eaten that… i dunno, Nik, what do they do?'
POO.”

Angie Sage book Flyte

Source: Flyte

Thinking, Waiting

“Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed.

Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

Feeling, Sleep, Christ

“Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

“Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
Source: The Lost Hero

Happiness, World

“Smashing heads does not open minds.”

Deborah Tannen (1945) American sociolinguist

“So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Problem, Training

“When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.”

Janet Evanovich book Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

School, Boy

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

Books

“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Love, World

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: The Eye in the Pyramid

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: He's So Not Worth It

Kiss, Missing You

“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Source: Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

Books

“Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Wine

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

World, Waiting, Dead

“Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, War, Home

“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Way, Fashion, Business, Heart

“So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic?

"Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking, Light

“Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch”

Janet Evanovich book Seven Up

Source: Seven Up

“Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way”

Jim Butcher book Academ's Fury

Source: Academ's Fury

Way, Learning, Heart

“Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Beauty, Thinking

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Sadness, Feeling, Personality, Patience

“"You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.
He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon and Clary, pg. 321
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Moms, Heart

“Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Smile

“Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

People, Soul, Memory, Heart

“I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.”

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Age, Suicide, Waiting

“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Source: Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

Business, Appearance

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

Beauty, Baby

“No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Reading

“Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.”
Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.”
“Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head. “Merengue? Hold on, I’ll get it.”
He snapped his fingers. “Calypso!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Music

“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Summer in the City

Love, People, Spring, Flowers

“Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Beauty, Heart

“Barrons." I hastily shoved the phone between the cushions.

Ms. Lane." He inclined his dark head.

You tattooed me, you bastard." I got right to the point.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Tattoo

“He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

Dreams, Boy

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

Learning, Heart

“You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.”

Etgar Keret (1967) Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter

Source: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories

People

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Beauty, Feeling, Personality, Night

“It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it. Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!"
"Mom!"Leo cries, turning bright red.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 11 Birthdays

Guy, Moms

“Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.”

Trudi Canavan book The High Lord

Source: The High Lord

Madness

“I swear on the Angel.” He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. “The hell with that.
I swear on us.”
Clary wound her fingers into the sleeve of his T-shirt. “Why us?”
“Because there isn’t anything I believe in more.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Angels, Hell, Kiss

“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Thinking

“All that was missing was a neon sign that read EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT with a flashing arrow pointing at his head.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Evil, Reading

“She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hate, Question

“Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Love, Time

“I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love, Thinking, Heart

“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Personality

“I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.”

David Clement-Davies book Fell

Source: Fell

Men

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

God, Boy, Water

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Life, People

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“I don’t know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Birth

“Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Horse

“I have a feeling that when I'm Stormy's age, these everyday moments will be what I remember: Peter's head bent, biting into a chocolate chip cookie; the sun coming through the cafeteria window, bouncing off his brown hair; him looking at me.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Age, Feeling, Sun

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love, God

“If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Guy, Wedding

“It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Life, Smile, Beauty, Heartbreaking

“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Tear

“You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid.
- That's what my head said. But my heart… My stupid heart… Her voice broke. It was singing.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Stupidity, Singing, Heart, Night

“I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn’t work.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: See Jane Score

Forgetting

“It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“Clearly the secret of happiness… is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”

Stef Penney book The Tenderness of Wolves

Source: The Tenderness of Wolves

Happiness, Secret

“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Red Bird

Life, Business, Heart

“Dimitri: "Why did you come here?"
Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Dead

“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: The Invisibles, Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

Boy, Learning

“Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Sadness, Patience, Sad, Depressing

“Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history."
"Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

War, History

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”

A.A. Milne book When We Were Very Young

Source: When We Were Very Young

Winter, Dead

“I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Home

“Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Lirael

Dogs

Quotes about head page 13

Quotes about head
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