Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood. . . It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them.
She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
It is a joy to be choked with thought.
The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.
It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.
He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I don't need anything else. " His gaze turned solemn. "I don't want to be the river anymore. I want to be the earth that the tree roots in. And I believe that I can, if you'll be my tree. Will you?" It was too much. She began to cry, though she smiled so he'd know that they were happy tears. "That proposal. . . is vastly superior. . . to your last one," she choked out between sobs. "I would very much love to be your tree. " -Jarret and Annabel
