Flash Quotes - Page 17

• In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Self, Way

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• The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You sure about this?" I asked Thalia. She turned to me. "Amaltheia leads me to good things. The last time she appeared, she led me to you." The compliment warmed me like a cup of hot chocolate. I'm a sucker that way. Thalia can flash those blue eyes, give me one kind word, and she can get me to do pretty much whatever.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Blue, Giving

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• But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

  Suzanne Collins

  Cutting, Wings, Reporters

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.694, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nowadays I'm really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody's like "I can reverse the polarity of your ions!" Like in one big flash everybody's Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don't understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it's true.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Wall, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

  Lauren Oliver

  New York, Believe, Eye

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• The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Point Break, Gunpowder, Thieves

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• I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Chance, Cry

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Past, Resistance

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Love Is, Long

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• Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Ducks, Pie

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• I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Regret, Eye, Boss

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.79, Macmillan

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• His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Dark, Hair

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• It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fashion, Struggle, Fighting

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.59, Delacorte Press

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• I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

  Anne Frank

  Understanding, Problem, Pleasure

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

  Ally Carter

  Simple, Voice, Joy

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• The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

  Lauren Oliver

  Jumping, Hair, Yelling

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• She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Hands, Allies

  Ally Carter (2013). “Double Crossed (Free Story)”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Romance, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Wings, Bird

  "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

  Jim Butcher

  Color, Pale Skin, Skins

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• I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Numbers, Looks, Thirty

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.25, Delacorte Press

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• Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

  Susan Cain

  Lying, Inspiration, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.169, Broadway Books

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• Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Mind, Minutes

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.14, Beacon Press

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