Flash Quotes - Page 9

• Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

  John Berryman

  Sea, Sky, Boredom

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Children, Past

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Night, Light

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.61, Routledge

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• To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Light, Acting

  Table Talk 17 Apr. 1823 (1835)

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• Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ideas, Mind, Labor

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• it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Past, Resistance

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Love Is, Long

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• Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?" "Duck pies in the park," said Jem under his breath, and he and Will smiled at each other, just a flash, before the door opened and the Consul swept it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Ducks, Pie

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• His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Dark, Hair

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• It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fashion, Struggle, Fighting

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.59, Delacorte Press

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• I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

  Anne Frank

  Understanding, Problem, Pleasure

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Joy, Heaven

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.264

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• Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

  Sylvia Day

  Powerful, Self, Shadow

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• Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

  Jim Butcher

  Color, Pale Skin, Skins

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• I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Numbers, Looks, Thirty

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.25, Delacorte Press

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• Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

  Susan Cain

  Lying, Inspiration, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.169, Broadway Books

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• Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Mind, Minutes

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.14, Beacon Press

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• Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

  Cornell Woolrich

  Husband, Men, Tonight

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• I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Lightning, Wonder, Resolution

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• [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

  Kim Harrison

  Encouragement, Home, Thinking

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• She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Hands, Allies

  Ally Carter (2013). “Double Crossed (Free Story)”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

  Lauren Oliver

  Jumping, Hair, Yelling

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• What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

  Ally Carter

  Simple, Voice, Joy

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• I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

  Lauren Oliver

  New York, Believe, Eye

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• The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Point Break, Gunpowder, Thieves

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