Linger Quotes
178 quotes by 149 authors
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She stood, squared her shoulders. “We’ll do it. Together.†And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed…
— Gena Showalter
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Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't…
— Maria V. Snyder
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It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did…
— Victoria Alexander
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And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and…
— Dean Koontz
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We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
— Umberto Eco
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I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you…
— Henry B. Eyring
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We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet.…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips.…
— Ann Beattie
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Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
— Patricia McCormick
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if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.
— Robin Hobb
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You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon…
— David Petersen
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They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily…
— Daphne du Maurier
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me…
— Lord Byron
Who Wrote These Linger Quotes
149 authors contributed a total of 178 Linger Quotes, led by these top contributors: