Forever Quotes - Page 30

• To draw something is to try to capture it forever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Trying, Capture, Draws

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do." "Can I keep her?" "For the love of...No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.

  Julie Garwood

  Daughter, Father, Hands

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• Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Special, One Day, Wonderful

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “Crystal Cove”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.

  Vikram Chandra

  Regret, Hypocrite, Past

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.365, Faber & Faber

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• We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sorrow, Persist, Keep Going

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• I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley

  Shannon Hale

  Bye, Feet, Needs

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• Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Bruises, Might

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Tangle of Need: A Psy-Changeling Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Cities, Bumps

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• You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Beautiful, Winning, Kind

  "The Importance Of Unconventional Beauty" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fear, Inferiority, Faces

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• Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Want, Sometimes

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• I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Pact, Ifs

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• For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Would Be, Given, Given Up

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• Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Fitting

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• We spoke of how to say good-bye,” Jem said. “When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, ‘Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.’ They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Heart

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• To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

  Rick Riordan

  Growing Up, Romantic Love, Married

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Hail

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place in my life forever. What are words compared to that?” I sighed, my anger dissipating as quickly as his flames had. “Oh, Vlad, if you believed that, you would’ve told me what I wanted to hear to just appease me. You didn’t, which proves saying ‘I love you’ means more to you than everything else.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Love You, Mean, Flames

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• So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Heart, My Heart, Said

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.354, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

  James A. Baldwin

  Lying, Forgiving, Important

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• There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

  Juan Rulfo

  Dog, Mean, Night

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• This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Giving, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Echoes, Insane

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