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When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you… — Sara Gruen
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people… — Deb Caletti
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open… — James Joyce
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose… — Stephen King
Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides… — Megan Whalen Turner
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good… — Paul Theroux
And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again. — Nicholas Sparks
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. — Henry David Thoreau
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but… — Ayn Rand
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in… — Margaret Atwood
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the… — Sarah Dessen
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through… — A.M. Jenkins
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will… — Sue Monk Kidd
It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he… — Orhan Pamuk
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to… — Charles Frazier
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. — Frank Herbert
And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink… — Nicholas Sparks
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met,… — Nicholas Sparks
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. — J. G. Ballard
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister… — Kate Chopin
Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH… — Natsuki Takaya
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did… — Leo Tolstoy

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