Slowly Quotes
1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors
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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly…
— Louise Glück
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Oh baby," he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts…
— Lisa McMann
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I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could…
— Amy Tan
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It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over…
— Arundhati Roy
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Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned…
— J R Ward
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Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes…
— Douglas Coupland
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My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly…
— Hermann Hesse
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The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded…
— Sarah Dessen
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They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm…
— Toni Morrison
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He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of…
— Paul Auster
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She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a…
— Sarah Dunn
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
— Oscar Wilde
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He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young…
— Neil Gaiman
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did…
— Victor Hugo
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Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly…
— Sarah Dessen
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Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that…
— Claudia Gray
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The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.
— Terry Pratchett
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I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I…
— Lois Lowry
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Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know…
— Ann Brashares
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A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon…
— Hermann Hesse
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