Seconds Quotes

890 quotes by 723 authors

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I… — John Green
My good lady,â€™ interrupted Clent, â€˜are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of… — Frances Hardinge
Heâ€™s sort of a homeless horse,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonâ€™t be back for a couple days.… — Janet Evanovich
Sometimes--and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second--sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other.… — Gary D. Schmidt
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. â€œFour hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till weâ€™re out of purgatory… — Jodi Picoult
I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being… — Lauren Oliver
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding… — Robin Sloan
Every moment of life mattered. Even the perfect snowflake that alighted on his palm and melted in seconds. — Kristen Britain
So, tell me,â€ he whispers. â€œHow fast did you climb those fourteen stories?â€ Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into… — Marie Lu
And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier.… — James Dashner
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished.… — Jonathan Carroll
Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action… — Tina St. John
It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool… — Laini Taylor
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he… — Erich Maria Remarque
Are you coming down with something?" Mom asks. And just for the tiniest of seconds, I wonder what would happen if I told them the… — Gayle Forman
I eat haughty, arrogant, manipulative, self-important bitches like you for breakfast, sugar. And then I go back for seconds. — Jennifer Estep
She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able… — Veronica Roth
You were difficult enough to catch,â€ Faste said. Salander gave him a long look, satisfied herself that he was an idiot, and decided that she… — Steig Larsson
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as… — Stefan Zweig

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