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I choose this," I say, my voice ragged with want. "I choose you. — Beth Revis

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His — Joe Abercrombie

The ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis. — J.G. Ballard

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing. — Caitlin Kittredge

This ragged heart," she said, pulling at her kimono. "I should rip it out and bury it for compost. — Janet Fitch

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. — Walt Whitman

I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me ... — Laurie Halse Anderson

ragged clothing he had on was taken — Wooden Leg

In working myself ragged, I felt integrated, I felt American, and I rarely had time to think of home. — Abraham Verghese

I always walked the ragged edge. — Lisa Mantchev

And the storm he was deliberately creating raked over the decimated landscape of his soul, obscuring the ragged, desolated mess he was. — J.R. Ward

You fixed yourself. You didn't need me."
"No, Sydney." My voice was ragged. "I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you. — Richelle Mead

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! — Alexander Blok

Marcus looked down. "Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?" he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together. — Ripley Patton

I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love - — Stasia Ward Kehoe

He needed the hand on his shoulder, the kiss to his temple and the hot, ragged breath of his Master over his face. — Casey K. Cox

Zane lifted one hand to cup Ty's face. "Do you have any idea how brave you are?" he asked, the sounds ragged and perhaps even a little choked. "Tell — Madeleine Urban

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. — King Krule

Babe, it's time," he said as he reached down and began to remove his ragged boots. — Scott Hildreth

Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked. — Geraldine Harris

Death is dancing me ragged. — Linda Hogan

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. — Jack Kerouac

Thou art a very ragged Wart. — William Shakespeare

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand. — Sabaa Tahir

Ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision. — Ian McEwan

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods. — Grant Morrison

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the — Richard Russo

He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind. — George Orwell

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ... — Richard Wilbur

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be. — Stewart O'Nan

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. — Herman Melville

His eyes softened into something almost like amusement, as if such a ragged appearance was all one could expect from a renowned mechanic. — Marissa Meyer

Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through — Stephen King

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin

Tombstones grew like ragged, rotting teeth from the mushy grass-covered ground. — Fiona Druce

I was surprised hearing my own ragged voice. I sounded so hateful and angry. My voice didn't resemble any part of what I knew of myself. — J.M. Northup

...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make. — Eoin Colfer

Be very careful what you try with that. I'm not as strong as I should be." His breath was ragged, and irregular. "And you are stronger than you know. — Tyra Lynn

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air. — Laline Paull

The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. — Natalie Babbitt

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion. — Susan Abulhawa

And he had offended love. Fuck him ragged had Kennedy offended love. — John Niven

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. — Gordon Graham

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. — E. E. Cummings

Out on the ragged edge of space, there was no time for theories. — Adam Christopher

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold

Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair. — Jonathan Lethem

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. — J.K. Rowling

When she went back to the telephone Hely's breath, on the other end, was ragged and secretive. — Donna Tartt

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. — William R. Alger

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. — Shana Alexander

Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own — Sarah J. Maas

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish. — Roger Andrew Taylor

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. — Stephen King

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. — T. S. Eliot

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. — Bill Bryson

She looked up and saw, high in the sky beyond the racing black clouds, a ragged scrap of blue sky. Enough to make a cat a pair of trousers. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure - and make music that wasn't there before. — Barack Obama

In January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses ... lie abandoned by you ... — John Geddes

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker