First Time Quotes - Page 16

• The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

  Ben Okri

  Karma, Simple, Law

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.

  Norman Doidge

  Memories, Needs, Analysis

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge (pp. 229-230), March 15, 2007.

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• I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cities, Two

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• And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Firsts, Gray, Fallen

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• Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

  Kami Garcia

  Raindrops, Firsts, Wet

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• I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Twists, Tables

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• And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Wall, Boys, Doors

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• This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

  John Green

  Firsts, Happens

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?" "Blow me Shane." "Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table." "Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it." Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it." "You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Party, Mean

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• A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love Is, Men, Rights

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• For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Stupid, Firsts, Remember

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 25, 2004.

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• What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, What Matters, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 23, 2014

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• When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• Your number was up the first time I met you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Numbers, Firsts

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches. I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

  Wilson Rawls

  Eye, Years, Old Friends

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.235, Laurel Leaf

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• Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Cutting, Space

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Past, Night

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Firsts, Importance Of Being Earnest, Ideal Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Laughing, Arms

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.329, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Hearing, Firsts

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, June 23, 2009.

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• Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell

  Suzanne Collins

  Laughing, Guy, Leaving

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

  Cassandra Clare

  Names, Way, Hearing

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.9, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Cutting, Hair, Knives

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Persistence of Memory”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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