Right Now Quotes - Page 6

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Daniel Handler

Pyramids, Psychology, Pills

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right now,I am my father

Natasha Friend

Father

Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love Is, Sure Love, Track

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As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.

George Carlin

Heart, Two, Burning

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Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

Cintra Wilson

Brain, Looking Good, Economy

Cintra Wilson (2010). “Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy

Rick Riordan

Class, Perfectly Normal, Monsters

Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.147, Penguin UK

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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Chuck Palahniuk

Lying, Ceilings, Coffins

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

Song, Moments, Our Lives

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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Tell me why.” My voice shook. “Tell me right now.

Claudia Gray

Voice

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Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!

Rhonda Byrne

Life, Past, Thinking

Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good.” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.

Haruki Murakami

Girl, Thinking, Self

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If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.

Michael J. Fox

Taken, Years, Bills

"Lucky Man: A Memoir". Book by Michael J. Fox, www.sfgate.com. 2002.

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Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I’m going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.

Carlton Mellick III

Crazy, Drinking, Character

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I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

Daniel Handler

Strong, Jealous, Makeup

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All that matters to me is the man in front of me right now. (Tory) I’m not a man, Soteria. (Acheron) I know. But if you think your godhood excuses you from putting the toilet seat down, think again. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Men, Thinking, Excuse You

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.698, Macmillan

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I don’t feel brave, especially not right now. (Delphine) That’s what bravery is, especially for a woman not used to having emotions. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don’t let it stop you, that is true courage. There’s never been bravery without fear. Just as there’s no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hate, Bravery, Emotion

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.182, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

Hayley Williams

Stars, Airplane, Night

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But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

Emily Maguire

Letting Go, Regret, Knowing

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I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.

Lauren Oliver

Hate, Heart, House

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There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

Gayle Forman

Kissing, Hair, Waiting Rooms

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I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

Richelle Mead

Badass, Nice, Mean

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I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

Rachel Caine

Vision, Vampire, Rays

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...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Alexandra Potter

Forever, Want, Want To Be With Someone

Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

Haruki Murakami

Eye, Pyramids, Forever

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 18, 2016

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Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.” “Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh. He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.

Lisa Kleypas

Heart, Eye, Laughing

Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.114, Hachette UK

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