Linger Quotes

178 quotes by 160 authors

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies… — Pat Conroy
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to… — Sarah Addison Allen
One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head,… — Helen Hollick
He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did.… — Meg Cabot
If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? — Susan Orlean
Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of… — Ellen Hopkins
I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence,… — Marya Hornbacher
You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a… — Cecelia Ahern
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. Itâ€™s those that bring us grief that linger. — Megan Hart
They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together. — Lisa McMann
I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in… — Kaui Hart Hemmings
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. — Haruki Murakami
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting… — Alice Hoffman
Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end...… — Stephen King
She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many timesâ€”soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones,… — Cassandra Clare
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. — Orson Scott Card
Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price? — Dean Koontz
But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only… — George R. R. Martin
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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160 authors contributed a total of 178 Linger Quotes, led by these top contributors: