Bear Hugs Quotes

• He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.

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  Melissa Bank

  Mean   Kissing   Thinking  

  588

• (She grabbed him for a bear hug.) Stop sexually harassing me, Mom. (Nick)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom   Hug   Bears  

  2934

• Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.

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  Richelle Mead

  Christian   Book   Hair  

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

  3337

• I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me―too roughly―right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered against my hair, crushing me in a bear hug that about to broke my ribs. "Can't―breathe!" I gasped.

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  Stephenie Meyer

  Crush   Hair   Hands  

  3987

• It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

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  Criss Jami

  Counter Attack   Feet   Hug  

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

  1056

• After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth. And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..." "Let...me...go." "That's been the whole problem. I can't.

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  Rick Yancey

  Crush   Couple   Feet  

  4003

• The Russians are a little stronger, but they excel at the basics. Lock the hands, bear hugs, takedowns, riding are all strong points for them, whereas Americans tend to have more finesse and take more risks. They might let you up in order to hit something else, and that's completely different from the Russian approach.

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  Gilbert Melendez

  Strong   Hands   Order  

  Source: bleacherreport.com

  2302

• He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

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  Jeanne Calment

  Hug   Too Much   Bear Hugs  

  1644

• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

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  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely   Memories   Loneliness  

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

  933

• The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

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  Ronald Reagan

  Funny   Sarcastic   Two  

  766