Second Quotes

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I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I… — Sarah Dessen
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second… — Russell Brand
So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I… — Kami Garcia
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of… — Heidi Julavits
I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness… — Francine Prose
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was… — Richard Brautigan
...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. — Audrey Niffenegger
Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and itâ€™s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going… — Doug Stanhope
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil,… — Albert Schweitzer
I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second. — Kami Garcia
I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified… — Laurell K. Hamilton
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension… — Nancy Werlin
Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family;… — W. Cleon Skousen
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it… — Aimee Bender
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. — Daphne du Maurier
Sometimes,â€ he said after a second that lasted a million years, â€œthings get broken. And they canâ€™t be fixed. — Megan Hart
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with… — Joseph Heller

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