First Time Quotes - Page 25

• Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to last. That experience. I'd finish it in a day otherwise, and that'd be like...like eating a carton of ice cream in one sitting. Too much richness over too quickly. This way, I can draw it out. Make the book last longer. Savor it. I have to since they don't come out that often.

  Richelle Mead

  Book, Ice Cream, Sitting

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• I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

  Kurt Cobain

  Nymphs, Jam, Pearls

  "Pages From Kurt Cobain's 'Journals' Published" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2002.

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• For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Past, Thinking, Long

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• Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Flower, Voice, Office

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Couple, Real

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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• I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girlfriend, Feet, Glasses

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.358, Scholastic Inc.

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• I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

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• You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Rivers, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Giving, Firsts

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• How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

  Richelle Mead

  Long, Firsts, Whole

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.267, Kensington Books

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• How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Taken, Firsts, Poet

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.354, Open Road Media

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• This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the same words he’d told me before fighting in that fateful duel. “I’ve chosen to live a dangerous life, but it’s who I am, and that wouldn’t change even if we’d never met.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fighting, Who I Am, Lasts

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• He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

  Susan Mallery

  Regret, Missing, Leaving

  Susan Mallery (2011). “Only Yours”, p.131, Harlequin

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• It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jealous, Firsts, Felt

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Believe, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.998, Simon and Schuster

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• That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

  Bill Condon

  Girl, Couple, Mean

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• I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

  Aaron Allston

  Daughter, Fire, Years

  Aaron Allston (2008). “Fury: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.278, Del Rey

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

  Laini Taylor

  Heart, Butterfly, Drawing

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• That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love You, Destiny, Long

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• Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

  Ilona Andrews

  Princess, Firsts, Settling

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.216, Penguin

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• Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

  Ai Yazawa

  Fate, Thinking, Hey

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• The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I was hurt. I might have been selfish but I was so hurt. I was afraid I would feel more pain. Now I remember every time I was with Shouji I felt better. You hugged me secretly with your heart, didn't you? Now I want you to embrace me with all that warmth, with all your strength.

  Ai Yazawa

  Hurt, Pain, Selfish

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• As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Mind, Heavy Things

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 22, 2017

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• The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

  Jean Rhys

  Lasts, Firsts, Last Time

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