Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at…
— Jean Genet
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He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst.…
— Daphne du Maurier
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I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts…
— Michael Scott
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The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the…
— Arundhati Roy
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Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-'…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with…
— Peter Cameron
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent…
— Agatha Christie
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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab…
— Ian Fleming
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There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught…
— T.H. White
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
— Miranda July
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Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master.…
— Roald Dahl
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I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's only so much…
— Sarah Dessen
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the…
— Sarah Dessen
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The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged…
— John Marshall
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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign…
— Sarah Dessen
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves…
— Angelina Jolie
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Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
— Samuel Beckett
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Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
— Virginia Woolf
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day…
— Polly Horvath
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I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down…
— Cecelia Ahern
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That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Ever come home and found your room messed up? Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "clean" it, and suddenly you can't find…
— Rick Riordan
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