Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every…
— Gustave Flaubert
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We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was…
— Annie Dillard
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When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?
— Michael Buckley
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[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp.…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.…
— Doris Lessing
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I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
— Sylvia Plath
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I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue moods threaten to…
— David Levithan
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We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always…
— Nicholas Sparks
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And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of…
— Sarah Dessen
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And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,…
— Denis Johnson
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The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of…
— Christopher Morley
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I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge…
— Elsie de Wolfe
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Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.
— Julia Quinn
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Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared…
— Sarah Dessen
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Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn…
— Bernhard Schlink
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There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me!…
— Ted Dekker
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