He stopped the horse abruptly, turning to look at me. "One…

“Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something…

— Elena Ferrante

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

— Ernest Bramah

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset…

— John Ashbery

“Obscurely disappointed, as we sometimes are when the things we profess to dislike don’t happen, she looked up abruptly and smiled at him.”

— Anonymous

“Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only…

— Anne Giardini

“Life is perhaps after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only…

— Anne Giardini

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

You came to me like a dream, the kind that always leaves. Just as the best part starts, it ends so abruptly.

— Alkaline Trio

Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice somewhere…

— Stephenie Meyer

We rush through this career and it ends abruptly for the most part.

— Brad Marchand

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

— Markus Zusak

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

— Charlotte Bronte

I did not like leaving the Rays so abruptly.

— Joe Maddon