Suspended Quotes

183 quotes by 162 authors

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect… — Ray Bradbury
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest… — Vladimir Nabokov
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. — Lawrence Durrell
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared… — Alicia Keys
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh… — Vera Nazarian
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended… — Mary Balogh
I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And… — Haruki Murakami
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at… — Margaret Atwood
She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward… — Cassandra Clare
On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head… — Kelley Armstrong
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. — Clifford Geertz
Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He… — Rick Riordan
Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE… — Linda Howard
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,… — Jeanette Winterson
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… — Susanna Kaysen
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable,… — Jasper Fforde
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your… — Khalil Gibran
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson

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