Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I…
— Zadie Smith
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I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By…
— Donald Miller
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She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios…
— Rebecca West
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I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of…
— Anne Rice
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
— E.D. Baker
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But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the…
— Kate Jacobs
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He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he…
— John Boyne
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born…
— Victor Hugo
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
— E. M. Forster
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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He looked at my lips. I suddenly found myself wanting to lick his. 'Yes,' he replied, his eyes going molten. My breath caught in my…
— Katie MacAlister
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Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love.…
— Arundhati Roy
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Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being…
— Cassandra Clare
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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist…
— Colum McCann
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You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues…
— Truman Capote
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I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique…
— Karen Chance
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Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us.…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could…
— Eckhart Tolle
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the…
— Joanna Russ
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God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely…
— Nicholas Sparks
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But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt…
— Shannon Hale
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It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a…
— Sophie Scholl
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