Tonight Quotes - Page 17

• There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Glasses, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

  Dean Koontz

  White, Rabbits, Wonderland

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Yes We Can, America

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Feb 29, 2012

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• The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.

  Charlaine Harris

  Animal, Blue, Aqua

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.501, Penguin

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• To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Destiny, Hands

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, America, Giving

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2008.

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• I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Book, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.134, Zebra Books

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• Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong

  Billy Joel

  Needs, Want, Slow Down

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• Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

  Annie Dillard

  Couple, Scare, Ponds

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.119, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• tonight it taco night" -rachel (cam's mom)

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Night, Tacos

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• I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

  Demi Lovato

  Staying

  Song: La-la Land Machine, Album: Don't Forget, 2008

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• She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

  Terry Brooks

  Girl, Clever, Sky

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.7, Del Rey

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• Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Laughing, Lasts, Belly

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Shine On, Circles

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.

  Janet Evanovich

  Party, Cat, Dancer

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.207, Macmillan

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• She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight." [Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?" "Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home." I could feel the heat rush to my face. Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it being tonight," he said.

  Janet Evanovich

  Home, Men, Twelve

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• nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Tomorrow

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• Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Love You, Labyrinth

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, School, Mean

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• But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Moon, Remembers Everything

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.83, Penguin

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• If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

  J. K. Rowling

  Able, Innocent, Wells

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• Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Father, Believe

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Light, Forget

  Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

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• Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael

  Meg Cabot

  Kings, Book, Heart

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