--- title: "1 Moments Happen Quotes By Stuart Dybek" description: "1 Moments Happen quotes by Stuart Dybek. Plus more from Stuart Dybek and more Moments Happen sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcb/stuart-dybek-30029_falling-in-love_i-had-this-sudden-awareness-she-continue_2890566.jpg" --- > [“I had this sudden awareness, she continues, of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived them. It's only a relatively few moments that we get to keep and carry with us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/i-had-this-sudden-awareness-she-continues-of-how-the-moments-of-our-2/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcb/stuart-dybek-30029_falling-in-love_i-had-this-sudden-awareness-she-continue_2890566.jpg) ## More by Stuart Dybek > [Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/our-plans-for-the-future-made-us-laugh-and-feel-close-but-those-same/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/h-ctor-tobar-s-accomplished-first-novel-affords-a-perspective-that-is/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/rather-than-feeling-that-every-moment-you-ve-got-to-exert-this/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/in-labor-day-hurricane-1935-douglas-trevor-vividly-recreates-a/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“Perhaps it's something other than insomnia, to lie listening to children yelling as if they've re-created light; to try to dream, but succeed only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/perhaps-it-s-something-other-than-insomnia-to-lie-listening-to/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/loaded-with-note-cards-for-research-papers-that-i-was-hopelessly/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/sometimes-in-a-tight-game-with-runners-on-digging-in-at-short-ready/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/but-we-didn-t-not-in-the-moonlight-or-by-the-phosphorescent-lanterns/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [The public library is where place and possibility meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/the-public-library-is-where-place-and-possibility-meet/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/i-had-this-sudden-awareness-she-continues-of-how-the-moments-of-our/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“In summer, waiting for night, we’d pose against the afterglow on corners, watching traffic cruise through the neighborhood. Sometimes, a car would go by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/in-summer-waiting-for-night-we-d-pose-against-the-afterglow-on/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/what-art-does-is-give-us-the-refinement-all-the-shades-of-meaning-of/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-dybek/from-its-aptly-noirish-title-on-martin-preib-s-the-wagon-has/) [Stuart Dybek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-dybek/) > [Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. 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