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1 " And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note. "
― Laini Taylor , Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
2 " The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded slowly out over decades; its throbbing could be heard in the corruption of the schools, periodicals, and universities, in melancholia and insanity among those artists and critics who could still be taken seriously; it raged as untrammeled and amateurish overproduction in all the arts. "
― Hermann Hesse
3 " We’d been walking in endless rectangles and now we were near the candy store again. The lights were out, the security gate down. We leaned up against the wall of a bank and I could feel the cool stone on my back, the billions of dollars thrumming through wires beneath and behind me, or on the night waves above. I wasn’t quite sure how they traveled. Or how much they got out anymore. "
― Sam Lipsyte , The Ask
4 " The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard. "
― Diana Gabaldon , Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)
5 " A rising tide of desire threatened to swamp her like a tidal wave, washing away fear and doubt and leaving behind it the knowledge that in her topsy turvy life, she was certain of only one thing: she wanted this man, right now, and she'd deal with the consequences later.... " I want to make love to you," he said, his voice low and thrumming through her veins as if it were a music only she could hear. "
6 " Refuse the old means of measurement.Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.-From " Out West "
7 " You deserve to be cherished, Sid, your body worshipped with tenderness..." " We have all night for that," she said in a sultry whisper she didn't recognize. The red-hot desire thrumming through her wasn't like anything she'd experienced before. 'I'm excellent at all night. "
8 " When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But she noticed other things, too -- the way she herself felt acutely visible with the baby in her arms, and the way some people's faces lit up when they saw a child. His warm weight was like living ballast, thrumming with energy, giving her substance. Folks were drawn to that. "
― Ruth Ozeki , All Over Creation
9 " He opened his eyes to half-cast. With a low rumble he lifted her onto his hips. " Take me to heaven, lassie. For no one but ye can cool the fire thrumming in my blood. "
