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1 " Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life isirrevocably changed. "
― J.M. Darhower , Sempre (Sempre, #1)
2 " I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God? "
― Catherynne M. Valente , The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1)
3 " Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Letters and Social Aims
4 " There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world. "
5 " Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface of green ocean water at twenty knots. At fifty tons it is the largest carnivore on earth. Imagine a four-hundred-pound heart the size of a chest of drawers driving five gallons of blood at a stroke through its aorta; a meal of forty salmon moving slowly down twelve-hundred feet of intestine…the sperm whale’s brain is larger than the brain of any other creature that ever lived…With skin as sensitive as the inside of your wrist. "
― Barry Lopez , Crossing Open Ground
6 " I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores. "
― Alfa Holden , Abandoned Breaths
7 " To dream is to have a chest filled with stars, a mind captivated by possibilities and a heart enveloped in imagination. "
― Anastasia Bolinder
8 " He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback. "
9 " You're handsome and you have a nice accent, and a chest that would make a nun perspire. "
― Katie MacAlister , A Midsummer Night's Romp (Ainslie Brothers, #2)
10 " In the end it comes down to two rival versions of the English middle afternoon. Post-Barrett, Pink Floyd kept on in a middle-afternoonish vein, but they fell in love with the idea of portentous storm clouds in the offing somewhere over Grantchester....Barrett's afternoonishness was far more supple and engaging. It superimposed the hippie cult of eternal solstice on the pre-teatime daydreams of one's childhood, occasioned by a slick of sunlight on a chest of drawers....His afternoonishness is lit by an importunate adult intelligence that can't quite get back to the place it longs to be....Barrett created the same precocious longing in adolescents." I remember 'See Emily Play' drifting across a school corridor in 1967...and I remember the powerful wish to stay suspended indefinitely in that music...I also remember the quasi-adult intimation that this wasn't pos "
11 " Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them,colorless green ideas slepp furiously. "
― Umberto Eco , How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
12 " But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape? "
― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle
13 " IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cellsFor a long time...And, if we get out,We lug them with us on our shoulders,Like a porter with a chest of goods. "
― , The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
14 " Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man. "
