Second Quotes
6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors
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Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And…
— Jasper Fforde
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Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on…
— Rick Riordan
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Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke…
— Kaye Gibbons
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Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given…
— Milan Kundera
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Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the…
— Neil Gaiman
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and…
— Blaise Pascal
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All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and…
— Karen Marie Moning
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better…
— Maya Angelou
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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.
— Jodi Picoult
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You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what? Mortgage? Conviction? Chance…
— Rachel Vincent
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For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of…
— Susan Cooper
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For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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For a second, he was still, blinking. Then he shook off all the blankets and coats so that his arms were free and he wrapped…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and…
— Charlaine Harris
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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That…
— Billie Letts
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The past beats inside me like a second heart.
— John Banville
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It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For…
— James Patterson
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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your…
— Jodi Picoult
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You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so…
— Lorrie Moore
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A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
— Nicholas Sparks
Who Wrote These Second Quotes
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