Lasted Quotes
245 quotes by 227 authors
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... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.
— Michael Chabon
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I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and…
— Ally Carter
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How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for…
— Christopher Pike
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...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I doubt you’ve ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?†His chuckle…
— Jeaniene Frost
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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had…
— Jules Verne
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I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.
— Cate Tiernan
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Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure.…
— Gayle Forman
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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
— Paulo Coelho
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All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
— Wendell Berry
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I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered,…
— Haruki Murakami
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To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
— Bill Watterson
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A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about it. It was fun while it lasted.
— Darynda Jones
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Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding…
— Rachel Vincent
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
— David Nicholls
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I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to…
— Mary Tyler Moore
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