Suddenly Quotes
2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors
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Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge,…
— Steve Toltz
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And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future…
— Colum McCann
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Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I…
— Scott O'Dell
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
— Muriel Barbery
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
— Salman Rushdie
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I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
— Azar Nafisi
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Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she…
— William Goldman
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There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years.…
— Paulo Coelho
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
— Tom Stoppard
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I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in…
— Jack Kerouac
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And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
— Joseph Conrad
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Hey, big spender,” I said. He looked appreciative but more amused than anything else. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a one dollar…
— Richelle Mead
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Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost…
— Richelle Mead
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...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your…
— Deb Caletti
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Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
— Lorrie Moore
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When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
— Muriel Barbery
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I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in…
— Harlan Coben
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It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple…
— William George Jordan
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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.…
— Oscar Wilde
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His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
— Virginia Woolf
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...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated…
— Thomas Bernhard
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