First Time Quotes - Page 27

• The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.

  Brent Weeks

  Intuition, Body, Firsts

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• Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.

  Naomi Novik

  Together, Sitting Down, Firsts

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.212, Del Rey

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• For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Happiness, Inspiring, Positivity

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• For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Summer, Years

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• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Death, Hands

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• Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

  Margaret George

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dark, Self, Way

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• She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.

  James Dashner

  Nice, Expression, Looks

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.219, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Princess, Army

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.387, Macmillan

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• Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Vintage, Always Trying, Dating

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Thats what her cars do," Lula said. "They explode. But I gotta tell you this was the best. This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck. One time her truck got hit with an antitank missile. That wasn't bad either, but it couldn't compare to this.

  Janet Evanovich

  Car, Garbage, Firsts

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.468, Macmillan

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• I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

  Albert Camus

  People, Tears, Age

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Saws, Firsts

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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• It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he put both arms around her and pulled her against him. His lips softened. She could feel the rapid beat of his heart, taste the sweetness of apples still on his mouth. She wound her hands into his hair, as she'd wanted to do since the first time she'd seen him. His hair curled around her fingers, silky and fine. Her heart was hammering, and there was a rushing sound in her ears, like beating wings

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Kissing, Hair

  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.303, Simon and Schuster

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• The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

  Jodi Picoult

  Balance, One Day, Legs

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• Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.

  Eoin Colfer

  Heart, Red, Months

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• I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Together, Done

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.693, Scholastic Inc.

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• She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Two, People, Feelings

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• Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

  Steig Larsson

  Punishment, Feelings, Firsts

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• The rat turned his glowing eyes on him, and Gregor was shocked by what he saw there. The intelligence, the deadliness, and, most surprisingly, the pain. This rat was not like Fangor and Shed. He was much more complicated and much more dangerous. For the first time in the Underland, Gregor felt completely out of his league. If he fought this rat, he wouldn't stand a change. He would lose. He would be dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Eye, Glowing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.126, Scholastic Inc.

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• In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

  Julian Barnes

  Ambition, Reality, Self

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• With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

  Jared Diamond

  Years, People, Encounters

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.239, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Escaping, Doors, Skills

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• When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mirrors, Saws, Firsts

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.154, Random House

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