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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously — Edgar Rice Burroughs
It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a… — Derek Landy
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other.… — Haruki Murakami
Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit.… — David Levithan
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in… — Elie Wiesel
Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when… — Augusten Burroughs
Hellboy?” “What?” “Touch me. Make me forget all this.” He was on her in an instant, took her down to the floor before she could… — Larissa Ione
Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of… — Cassandra Clare
Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something… — Augusten Burroughs
The Brother's hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa's lungs… — Cassandra Clare
I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for… — Jeaniene Frost
By the time those electric blue eyes seek me out in the stands, my heart throbs fiercely in my temples, and my insides bubble with… — Katy Evans
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful… — Joseph Conrad
An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa
They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he… — Patricia Highsmith
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him… — James Joyce
She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. — George R. R. Martin
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than… — Cassandra Clare
I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw… — Tessa Dare
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the… — Pope Francis
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine… — Anne Carson
Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well,… — Richelle Mead
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when… — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and… — David Gerrold

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