Forever Quotes - Page 10

• I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

  David Foster Wallace

  Cutting, Thinking, Phones

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Knowing, People

  Lisa Kleypas (2017). “The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl”, p.345, Macmillan

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• You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

  Richard Curtis

  Crush, Mistake, Months

  "Fictional character: The Count". "The Boat That Rocked", www.imdb.com. April 1, 2009.

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• ...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Knowing, Mind

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• Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Wall, Book, Smell

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.45, Granta Books

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• He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Soul, Matter, Way

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• Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Desire, One Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.284, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Falling In Love, Fall, Periods

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• I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hate, Guarantees That, People

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• Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?" "I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever," said Eugenides. "Pol used to say that," said Sounis, surprised. "I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Advice, Wish, Used

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Incidents, Whole

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.179, Vintage

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• You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.

  John Banville

  Rain, Heart, Night

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• The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.

  Diane Setterfield

  Long, Funeral, Tears

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

  Sarah Dessen

  Speechless, Rebuttal, Left

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.114, Penguin

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• Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Gone, Lost

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.219, Penguin

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• I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Lying, Moving, Love You

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• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  Lisa Unger

  Philosophy, Giving, Doe

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.695, Crown

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• It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

  Paula McLain

  Sadness, Thinking, Together Again

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

  David McGee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Giving

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• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Determination, Wind, Two

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• Everything I could want in eternity is possible because of you," he thought, and then he stopped thinking and simply enjoyed being in the arms of the one person in all of forever who made his life complete.

  Melissa Marr

  Thinking, Want, Arms

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• The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Shadow, Shapes, Makers

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing

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• A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

  Kristin Cashore

  Faces, Saws, Consciousness

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.133, Penguin

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• Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

  Barry Lyga

  Moving, Car, Cocoons

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

  Mary Balogh

  Grateful, Adventure, Today

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.258, Dell

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