Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.
— Brian Selznick
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I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison…
— Augusten Burroughs
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She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was…
— Frank O'Hara
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If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's…
— Max Brooks
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
— James M. Barrie
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
— Jack Kerouac
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His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.
— Maile Meloy
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Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be…
— J R Ward
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I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.
— Beth Moore
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Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is…
— Julio Cortazar
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I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature.…
— Garth Stein
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Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with…
— P L Travers
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Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up with…
— Rick Riordan
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She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard…
— George Orwell
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If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling…
— Andy Stanley
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Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness.…
— Marguerite Duras
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Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious.…
— Francine Pascal
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No,…
— Julie Garwood
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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language,…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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