You don’t owe me anything.” “Yes, I fucking do,” he said…

“He stopped the horse abruptly, turning to look at me. "One act of kindness cannot repay all the sins I have committed.”

— H. A. Lamb

“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

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

— Charlotte Bronte

“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

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

— Markus Zusak

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

— Brad Marchand

“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

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

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

— Alkaline Trio

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

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

“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

“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

“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

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

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

— Ernest Bramah