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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles. -- Neal Shusterman
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole. -- George Washington
But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius. -- Darren Shan
I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more. -- Julia Quinn
Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus. -- Karen Marie Moning
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way. -- Kenneth Grahame
I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd. -- Charlyne Yi
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. -- Lauren Oliver
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. -- Edith Wharton
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more -- Andrew Peterson
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. -- Zadie Smith
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. -- Veronica Roth
Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. -- Karen Russell
Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet. -- Marilyn Monroe
The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. -- Lewis Thomas
Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air and your socks are a tough ripe, to put it mildly." Oh, sorry!" said Horace, tugging the riding boot back on over his sock. Now that Halt mentioned it, he was aware of a rather strong odor in the room. -- John Flanagan
And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known. -- Edith Wharton
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my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle, -- Franz Kafka
Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest -- Fiona Apple
I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me. -- Grant-Lee Phillips
I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new. -- Isaac Marion
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable. -- Criss Jami
The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move. -- Hafsa Shah
I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call. -- Paul Kariya
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days. -- Maggie Stiefvater

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