Suddenly Quotes

2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors

Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.… — Holly Black
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it,… — Guy de Maupassant
My smile faded, and I suddenly felt confused. My heart leapt in my chest. "Why would you do that for me?" "What wouldn't I do… — Richelle Mead
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all… — Tea Obreht
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were… — David Levithan
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become… — Spider Robinson
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other… — Augusten Burroughs
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax,… — Ira Levin
Try it on." "It's probably a little snug," I said, suddenly feeling conspicuous. "Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely… — Becca Fitzpatrick
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably… — Terry Pratchett
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads… — Kenneth Grahame
Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would… — Catherynne M. Valente
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their… — Paul Auster
It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I… — Taylor Swift
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there… — Linda Hogan
One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark. — Elizabeth Wein
The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You… — Brent Weeks
It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling… — Jeff Lindsay
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking… — Anne Carson
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed… — Hilary McKay
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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