Briefly Quotes

198 Briefly quotes by 170 unique authors

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at… — Michael Ondaatje
What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in? — Isaac Marion
Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low… — John Flanagan
She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I… — Rachel Vincent
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or… — Mark Strand
We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide. "It is." "Is… — Derek Landy
You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to… — Amanda Hocking
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in… — Knut Hamsun
She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head. — Marissa Meyer
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be… — Cassandra Clare
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last. — Alice Hoffman
Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. — Jim Butcher
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment. — Jojo Moyes
Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's… — John Stephens
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny… — Thomas Wolfe
Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy… — Rick Riordan
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another.… — Gore Vidal
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering… — Bill Bryson
Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no… — Veronica Roth
I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so… — Steven Erikson
Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced.… — Suzanne Collins
She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at… — Koushun Takami
She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so… — Ally Carter
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening… — Mark Haddon

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