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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything… — Jodi Picoult
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. His skin was… — Stephenie Meyer
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite.… — Sherwood Anderson
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in… — Dion Fortune
Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just… — Bill Bryson
Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars… — Anna Godbersen
...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun. — Ray Bradbury
Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to… — Emily Carr
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. — Laura Esquivel
He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is… — Louise Rennison
Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair… — Suzanne Collins
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with… — Virginia Woolf
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will… — William L. Shirer
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and… — Anais Nin
He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he… — Janet Frame
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only… — Richard Brautigan
But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a… — Robin Sloan
Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his… — Maggie Stiefvater

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