Shudder Quotes

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“Sense how
Even the smooth stones ache
With stories of their own
In the shuddering light of day.”
― Scott Hastie

“If he says he can't live without you, you'll know he means it, by the way it would make you shudder instead of testing him.”
― Nitya Prakash

“A shudder skittered down my spine at the thought, and I shoved it away, focusing on my surroundings, on the task ahead. That was all I could do, all I'd been able to do for years: focus on surviving the week, the day, the hour ahead.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I scrubbed at my face. Perhaps it was the quiet, the hollowness of the past few days- perhaps it was only that I no longer had to think hour to hour about how to keep my family alive, but... it was regret, and maybe shame, that coated my tongue, my bones.

I shuddered, as if I could fling it off, and kicked back the sheets to rise from the bed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses