Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your…
— Nicholas Sparks
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At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then…
— Chelsea Handler
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Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever…
— Roald Dahl
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Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when…
— Arundhati Roy
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles…
— Virginia Woolf
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Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a…
— Jostein Gaarder
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But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the…
— Mervyn Peake
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It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
— Annie Dillard
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No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as…
— Sherman Alexie
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
— A A Milne
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare…
— Pablo Neruda
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We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your…
— Charlaine Harris
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards…
— Jack Kerouac
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The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly…
— Connie Willis
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Wait." Clary was suddenly nervous. "The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something." Maia snorted. "I'm from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.
— Cassandra Clare
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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who…
— Aldous Huxley
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It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is,…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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