Lingered Quotes
52 quotes by 46 authors
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
— Ann Brashares
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When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. .…
— Rachel Caine
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And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
— Simon Armitage
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'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters —…
— Maurice Sendak
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By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered…
— John Mayer
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
— Kate Morton
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Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the…
— Ally Carter
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,…
— Philip K. Dick
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic…
— Carl Sagan
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Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And…
— Sarah Dessen
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I need to get back to work,†Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.
— Wallace Stegner
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There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the…
— Ally Carter
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He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping…
— Thomas Hardy
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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Lingered Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 52 Lingered Quotes, led by these top contributors: