Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4119 authors
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Paul straightened, raking Elijah with a sweeping glance. “I’ve never seen a lycan shift so fast.†“Betcha never seen a lycan who’s nailing a vampress…
— Sylvia Day
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Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I…
— Stephen Chbosky
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...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play,…
— Margaret Haddix
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Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my…
— Anthony Horowitz
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It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?
— Eoin Colfer
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Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in…
— Susan Cain
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Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Penny said two words, the second of which was "you." Caine laughed. "I think you meant '---- you, Your Highness.
— Michael Grant
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The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
— Dashiell Hammett
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She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back…
— Eoin Colfer
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I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big.…
— Caitlin Moran
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Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the…
— Ally Carter
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It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very…
— Ally Carter
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The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
— Glen Duncan
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I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
— Andy Andrews
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We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very…
— Aldous Huxley
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At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it…
— Anais Nin
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
— Douglas Coupland
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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game:…
— Georges Perec
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Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
— David Mitchell
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