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Beating Quotes

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Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.”
Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

John Green
“It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

Fernando Pessoa
“If the heart could think it would stop beating.”
Fernando Pessoa

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Face it; life's gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you're lucky you'll get stuck to the bottom of someone's shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Munia Khan
“The moon seems unaware
of night's dark hitting
on the damp warm rain
misguiding owl's spitting
A thunder light of love
raising hearts beating
while weather learns more
from rain lovers meeting”
Munia Khan

Anna Funder
“Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Munia Khan
“Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart”
Munia Khan

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

Scott Lynch
“The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.”
Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“This was what few people realize—it’s hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Christina Engela
“Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.”
Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

Arundhati Roy
“Screams died in them and floated belly up, like dead fish. Cowering on the floor, rocking between dread and disbelief, they realized that the man being beaten was Velutha. Where had he come from? What had he done? Why had the policemen brought him here?
They heard the thud of wood on flesh. Boot on bone. On teeth. The muffled grunt when a stomach is kicked in The muted crunch of skull on cement. The gurgle of blood on a man's breath when his lung is torn by the jagged end of a broken rib.
Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn't understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did. The abyss where anger should have been. The sober, steady brutality, the economy of it all.
They were opening a bottle.
Or shutting a tap.
Cracking an egg to make an omelette.

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear — civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness.
Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men’s Needs.
What Esthappen and Rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn’t know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions (this was not war after all, or genocide) of human nature’s pursuit of ascendancy. Structure. Order Complete monopoly. It was human history, masquerading as God’s Purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience.
There was nothing accidental about what happened that morning. Nothing incidental. It was no stray mugging or personal settling of scores. This was an era imprinting itself on those who lived in it.
History in live performance.”
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Ashlyn Macnamara
“Suppose, before you beat the stuffing out of me, you tell me who you are and explain why. Then I may or may not take it like a man, depending on whether or not I agree with you.”
Ashlyn Macnamara, A Most Devilish Rogue

“Winning doesn’t interest me terribly, in the sense that in anything I have ever done I have never wanted to be better than anyone else… I was not interested in beating anyone, just in getting better by myself.”
Marty Feldman, eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius

Margaret Way
“If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?”
Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek

“The youngster had frozen again as his memory flashed back to the glowering face of his grandfather, deeply lined, snarling, wild eyes stretched as wide and white as pot saucers...”
Martin R Jackson : Running with Finn McCool

Hanna Abi Akl
“Let me feel
The beating of your heart
So that I
May feel again”
Hanna Abi Akl, Diary in Poems

Jennifer Samson
“Well, they didn’t beat the smart ass out of him.”
Jennifer Samson, Piece of Work

Munia Khan
“I can never tell
whether it’s his heart or mine beating
when passion pulsates
faster than our hearts oneness

From the Poem: Blithe Craving”
Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue

Dean F. Wilson
“As much as he was thankful for the rescue, his pride kind of wished he wasn't. It'd taken twice the beating the Regime guards'd given him, and pride never took a beating well.”
Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

William Shakespeare
“methinks, thou art a general offence, and
every man should beat thee”
William Shakespeare

Holly Black
“I watch every blow, every flinch. I have little choice. I can shut my eyes, but the sounds are just as terrible. And worst of all is Cardan's empty face, his eyes as dull as lead.

Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through it's application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

Delia Owens
“She'd learned over and over from Pa: these men had to have the last punch. Kya had left Chase sprawled on the dirt. The two old fishermen had probably seen her flatten him. As Pa would have it, Kya had to be taught a lesson.”
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“Pain is not just beatings and torture، often a word causes a big problem in people's homes.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Anthony T. Hincks
“And he said...

...violence will lead you to beat yourself up.”
Anthony T. Hincks