Suddenly Quotes

2531 Suddenly quotes by 1697 unique authors

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate… — Catherynne M. Valente
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. — David Foster Wallace
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is… — Reif Larsen
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously… — Viktor E. Frankl
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you… — Adam Rex
For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one… — Lauren Oliver
Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens… — Lauren Oliver
Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily.… — Holly Black
He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of… — Christine Feehan
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly… — Terry Pratchett
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy
I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing… — Jodi Picoult
If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just… — Ellen DeGeneres
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I… — Anne Carson
I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know… — Bernard Cornwell
Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his… — Kenneth Grahame
He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong… — P.G. Wodehouse
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. — Chogyam Trungpa
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations… — Chogyam Trungpa
You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still… — Barbara Delinsky
I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse. — Rick Riordan
something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away,… — Rick Riordan
After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. — David Levithan

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