First Time Quotes - Page 24

• What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Giving, Want

  Melina Marchetta (1992). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

  Julia Quinn

  Listening, Female, Wrong Answers

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Sep 04, 2014

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• He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Hands, Firsts, Facts

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1487, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Two, First Impression

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Want, Firsts

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• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  Ian Mcewan

  Gratitude, Regret, Men

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, March 11, 2010.

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• I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Vampire, Firsts, Necks

  Ellen Schreiber (2011). “Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

  James A. Baldwin

  Beautiful, Mean, Forever

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• Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Sea, Horizon

  Thomas Mann (1961). “Little Herr Friedemann”

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Drug, Nerves, Tools

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

  Anna Godbersen

  Blow, Hands, Suffering

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• It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Boys, Hot, Fever

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.343, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

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• Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.158, Penguin

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• For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.

  James Frey

  Children, Heart, Broken

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, Quiet, Empty

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.341, Penguin

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• For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

  Ann Brashares

  Names, Nurse, Saws

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.111, Random House

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• Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Firsts, Said, Clear

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her curled up in his arms, her hair tickling against his chin, he couldn’t imagine existing without her - Virtue - A Fairy Tale

  Amanda Hocking

  Hair, Missing, Firsts

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• The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Stars, Lying, Mean

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• For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

  Iain Pears

  Contentment, Want, Firsts

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin

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• He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

  Susanna Clarke

  Waiting, Dumb, World

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

  Chris Wooding

  Soldier, Firsts, Stage

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• Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

  Junot Diaz

  Years, Venus, Firsts

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, Impossible

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.92, Penguin

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