Long Time Quotes - Page 30

• Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

  Richard Ford

  Life, Running, Long

  Richard Ford (2012). “Canada”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Love me less, but love me for a long time

  David Levithan

  Long

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.190, Egmont UK

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• Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

  Charles Dickens

  Long, Wit

  Charles Dickens, Jill Kriegel (2010). “Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism”, p.173, Ignatius Press

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• She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

  Carson McCullers

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Long

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Long, Speechless

  "Sounds of Imagination". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

  Patricia Briggs

  Long, Brave, Taught

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.116, Penguin

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• I been away a long time.

  Ken Kesey

  Long

  One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest pt. 4 (1962)

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• Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you stop?' asked Tessa. 'I thought you might want to breathe,' said Guy carefully. 'Breathe?'said Tessa , shocked. 'I don’t need to breathe  when I’m with you.'

  Eva Ibbotson

  Hurt, Long, Guy

  "Magic Flutes".

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• She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Long, Needs

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Falling In Love, Men, Long

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.390, Faber & Faber

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• You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Eye, Doors

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• To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Long, Might

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• ...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Long, Effort, Astronomy

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• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• Forever is a very long time Peter

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Forever, Peter

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• I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

  Jonathan Evison

  Long, Feel Good, Mind

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.189, Head of Zeus

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• Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Long, Looks

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• Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

  Mitch Albom

  Expression, Long, Mind

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.

  Megan Hart

  Secret Places, Land, Long

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• I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Long, Body

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• Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

  Daniel Handler

  Long, Noses, Problem

  "The Ersatz Elevator". Book by Daniel Handler, March, 2001.

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• then she was laughing. They both were, and the savage teeth were the most joyous sight Phaedra had seen for a long time. It was as if they were dancing. There it was. Suddenly the strangeness of Quintana of Charyn's face made sense. Because it was a face meant for laughing, but it had never been given a chance.

  Melina Marchetta

  Sight, Long, Dancing

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• Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Feet, Long

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