Second Quotes
6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors
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Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second…
— Sarah Dessen
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You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
— Charles Yu
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing…
— Holly Black
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Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study…
— Tina Fey
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I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second…
— Jamie Ford
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
— Veronica Roth
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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too…
— Veronica Roth
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There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of…
— Philip K. Dick
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One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.
— Lauren Oliver
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Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel…
— Lauren Oliver
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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the…
— Charles Yu
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I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow,…
— André Aciman
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It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she…
— Cassandra Clare
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She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her,…
— Larissa Ione
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Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is…
— Lauren Oliver
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It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan,…
— Melina Marchetta
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All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and…
— Sara Gruen
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I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.
— Jay Asher
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On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm…
— Frank Zappa
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You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people…
— Douglas Coupland
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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
— Virginia Woolf
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