First Time Quotes - Page 23

• He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Found Someone, Space

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Firsts, Bitter, Birth

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• 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 a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Morning, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Country, Humor

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• Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

  Mary Balogh

  Firsts, Life Living

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.326, Delacorte Press

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• For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Survival, Firsts

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.119, Penguin

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• It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Firsts, Found

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sports, Dog, Real

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• I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acceptance, Helping Others, Diversity

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Night, Forever

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Men, Way, Saws

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• The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.

  Gerald Morris

  Girl, Simple, Talking

  Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Running, Funny Things, Giving

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the rest of my life. And it still is. It's still my favorite song... Lincoln, I said you were cute because I didn't know how to say--because I didn't think I was allowed to say--anything else. But every time I saw you, I felt like I did the first time I heard that song.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cute, Song, Thinking

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• The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Sea, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.

  Sarah Dessen

  Drinking, Fall, Blue

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.88, Penguin

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• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

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• for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.66, Penguin

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• Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

  Sarah Dessen

  Dark, Night, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.115, Penguin

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• When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

  Rob Sheffield

  Sports, School, Wrestling

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.37, Penguin

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• You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Names, Promise, Care

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• No. It was because it was the first time I made love to anyone. You can call me a liar or anything else, but do not doubt me on this. And I swear to you that you were the first, and you will be the last. ~Wraith

  Larissa Ione

  Liars, Doubt, Lasts

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Passion Unleashed”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

  Shannon Hale

  Hurt, Firsts, Just Being

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.151, A&C Black

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