wrapping QUOTES

8 " He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. "

― Chelsie Shakespeare , The Pull

10 " If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

12 " Nero lowered his head to speak in her ear, keeping his hands on her arms to lock her in place. “My problem is simple, Elle. I have a problem with you having no trouble saying thank you to someone else. I have a problem with you wrapping your arms around someone else. And I have a big fucking problem with you not minding kissing someone else. Not one fucking time have you done any of those things to me without my asking, or just doing it because you want to, not because I want you to. "

― Sarah Brianne , Nero (Made Men, #1)

14 " The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the same old traps. As we'll see in later chapters, although certain popular commentators make it seem effortlessly easy, the sheer complexity of the brain makes interpreting and understanding the meaning of any sex differences we find in the brain a very difficult task. But the first, and perhaps surprising, issue in sex differences research is that of knowing which differences are real and which, like the intially promising cephalic index, are flukes or spurious. "

― Cordelia Fine , Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

16 " Stitch tucked his knife into the utility belt he always wore around his waist. " Jerin, I'm going to miss practicing with you. Playing Knights and letting you win." He patted the man on the shoulder. " And filling your boots with slugs. Such great times." " That was you!" Jerin roared, his fingers wrapping around the leather covered hilt. "

18 " We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for. "

― Yudhanjaya Wijeratne , Numbercaste

20 " Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self. "

― Michael Finkel , The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit