Long Time Quotes - Page 29

• You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

  Hilary Mantel

  Years, Long, Goes On

  Hilary Mantel (2007). “An Experiment in Love: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Old Friends, Moments

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• For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Who I Am, Long, Wake Up

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

  John Green

  Love, Fighting, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.215, Penguin

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• I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline

  Lisa Kleypas

  Long, Like You, Someone You Like

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• You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Skills, Long

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

  Dan Chaon

  Long, Premonition, Remembered

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• So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.

  Ally Carter

  Two, Voice, Long

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• Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1936, Simon and Schuster

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• Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Long, Alive

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

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• When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

  Margery Williams

  Children, Real, Love You

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time... and it's all good.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.126, Penguin

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• Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Order, Long

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• The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

  Rachel Joyce

  Feet, Long, People

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.150, Random House

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• When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Kids, Eye

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• If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Thinking, Talking

  Franz Kafka, General Press (2016). “Metamorphosis”, p.8, GENERAL PRESS

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• I realized a long time ago, with a certain amazement, that no mattter how important something is in your life, no matter how huge it is, how much space it takes up in your heart and in your thoughts, unless you mention it to other people, they have no idea it exists.

  Sharon Shinn

  Heart, Ideas, Space

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• Then I asked her if she wanted to to the funeral, and my God, the look on her face. You'd think I'd asked her to drown the neighbor's cat." Admittedly, drowning the neighbor's cat didn't really clue me in as much as I would've liked. "So, she was angry?" He blinked back to me and stared. Like a long time.

  Darynda Jones

  Cat, Thinking, Long

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Romantic, True Love, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 10, 2016

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• You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

  Lucy Christopher

  Eye, Long, Looks

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• It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

  Susane Colasanti

  Long, Interesting, One Day

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.14, Penguin

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• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

  Deb Caletti

  Long, Together, Sometimes

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it’s a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.

  Richard Siken

  Reading, Long, Bird

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