Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 3939 authors

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the… — John Green
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day… — Haruki Murakami
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has… — Alberto Manguel
Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place. — Joe Dunthorne
You wanna fight?" I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, "Yeah. I do." "Well, I'll save you… — Kelley Armstrong
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels… — Leo Tolstoy
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand… — Kurt Vonnegut
The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless. — Susan Beth Pfeffer
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than… — Anita Diament
... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone,… — Devon Monk
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show… — Jennifer Donnelly
A typical master. Right to the end, he didnâ€™t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at… — Jonathan Stroud
...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it… — Tina Fey
That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,â€ said Snape coolly. â€œFive more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about?" "No," he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. "Cale… — Lynsay Sands
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some… — Jodi Picoult
The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, â€œChris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats… — Josh Lanyon
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. — Chuck Palahniuk
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. — H.G. Wells
...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that… — Jose Saramago

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