Long Time Quotes - Page 27

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

Shirley Jackson

Long, House, Clean

Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

William Faulkner

Long, Reason, Ready

William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better. "Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.

Kevin Hearne

Expression, Hands, Long

Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.50, Del Rey

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And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

Truman Capote

Morning, Pain, Sleep

Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

Ally Carter

Believe, Heart, Long

Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Cassandra Clare

Long, Kind, Eternity

Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

Erin Hunter

Lying, Long, Secret

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A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

Tove Jansson

Grandmother, Long, Lost

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And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Umberto Eco

Sleep, Long, People

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Anna Godbersen

Long, Secret, Has Beens

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We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Lynsay Sands

Blood, Long, People

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Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.

Susan Cooper

Uncles, Hero, Fighting

Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

J. K. Rowling

School, Long, Rats

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And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.

Meg Cabot

Long, Interesting, Impossible

Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

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Cole kissed me.. It was the sort of kiss that would take a long time to recover from. You could take each of our kisses, from the very first moment we'd met and put them on a slide in a microscope, and I was pretty sure what you'd find. Even an expert would see nothing on the first one, and then on the next one, the start of something - mostly outnumbered, easily destroyed - and then more and more until finally this one, something that even the untrained eye could spot. Evidence that we'd probably never be cured of each other, but we might be able to keep it from killing us.

Maggie Stiefvater

Eye, Kissing, Long

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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

David Nicholls

Long, Moments, Been In Love

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She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

Hans Fallada

Long, Pay, Known

Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.240, Melville House

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You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.

Karen Chance

Long, People, Want

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I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

Maggie Stiefvater

Space, Long, Weapons

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.87, Scholastic Inc.

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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

Cormac McCarthy

Stars, Sleep, Dark

Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.

Mira Grant

Long, People, Upset

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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Wall, Doctors, White

Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I know, chile! Ever’thing there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on yo’ soul. An’ to love sho ‘nough, you got to have a spot in yo’ heart fo’ ever’body – great an’ small, white an’ black, an’ them what’s good an’ them what’s evil – ‘cause love ain’t got no crowded-out places where de good ones stay an’ de bad ones can’t come in. When it gets that way, then it ain’t love.

Langston Hughes

Heart, White, Yesterday

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Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

Anne Lamott

Long, Heaven, Chocolate

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.133, Anchor

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...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

Maggie Stiefvater

Two, Long, Upset

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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