Lasts Quotes - Page 6

• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. “Why didn’t you just . . . fade?” Gaia demanded plaintively. “You hit me,” Nemesis said. It was a little boy’s voice coming from Caine’s mouth. “And that’s not okay.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Voice, Mouths

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• An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

  Alberto Moravia

  Heart, Hands, Evil

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Faces

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• Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Clueless, Years

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

  Paullina Simons

  Together, Letting You Go, Last Time

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• I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

  Rick Yancey

  Eye, Men, Sharks

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

  Nalini Singh

  Thinking, Car, Ears

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.198, Penguin

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• That was what humans did: They left on another messages through time, pressed between pages or carved into rock. Like reaching out a hand through time, and trusting in a phantom hoped-for hand to catch yours. Humans did not last forever. They could only hope what they made would endure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rocks, Hands, Forever

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream

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• You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Time, Knowing, Might

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.88, Macmillan

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.

  C.C. Hunter

  Feelings, Rabbits, Scared

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• When was the last time you did something for the first time?

  John C. Maxwell

  Service Culture, Firsts, First Time

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Powerful, Decision

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.150, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Running, Fall, Rain

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin

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• You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk." iAm ~ Lover At Last

  J.R. Ward

  Answers, Lovers, Problem

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• At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Doe, Horizon

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.71, A&C Black

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• That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

  Mitch Albom

  Together, Kind, Realizing

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Horse, Sorry, Eye

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• Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Together, Saws, Way

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• There's never the right last moment. Even if you get to say good-bye, even if you get to say "I love you", even if you jump off a plane and get a tattoo and hug everyone you've ever met right before you drift off with a smile, it is never the right last moment. There is always more to say, somewhere to go, something to remember. Another discussion, another fight. There is always supposed to be another day.

  Pamela Ribon

  Tattoo, Love You, Fighting

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• The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't last long. But... anger or sadness are different. They leave an undelible mark. Even after the wound heals... you can never forget the pain completely.

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Kindness, Pain, Moving

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