Lasts Quotes - Page 12

• I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Chosen

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• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

  George Orwell

  Safety, Soul, Together

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Pain, Grief

  Alyson Noel (2012). “Fated”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Long, Stories, Done

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

  Mary Karr

  Real, Names, Smell

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least have mentioned it," said Charlotte. "As a matter of general interest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

  J. Lynn

  Fall, Drunk, Looks

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• Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

  Georgette Heyer

  Tears, Firsts, Said

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• Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Stones, Steps

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Blood, Trying

  Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

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• Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, Glasses, Black

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• At last, the wheel comes full circle

  Cassandra Clare

  Saying Goodbye, Circles, Full Circle

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.568, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Army, Enemy, Skins

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• The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald next, with the lovely Citrine. Number Eight is digestio, her stand is Jade fine. E major's the key of the Black Tourmaline, Sapphire sings in F major, and bright is her sheen. Then almost at once comes Diamond alone, Whose sign of the lion as Leo is known. Projectio! Time flows on, both present and past. Ruby red is the first and is also the last.

  Kerstin Gier

  Past, Keys, Eight

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• In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.

  J.R. Ward

  Rain, Sleep, Silence

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• You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Believe, Goal

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• He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Stars, Dark, Mirrors

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sorry, Virginia, Gas Stations

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• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Breaths

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• Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

  J.R. Ward

  Laughing, Vampire, Cocktails

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1946, Penguin

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• I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.

  Perry Moore

  Disappointment, Dad, Eye

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Race, Years

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Real, Doors

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