Long Time Quotes - Page 16

• We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Long, Fortune

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Dream, Sleep, Loss

  Nawal El Saadawi (2015). “Woman at Point Zero”, p.25, Zed Books Ltd.

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• I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Tired, Thinking, Should Have

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• I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Believe, Black And White, Long

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• You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

  John Kennedy Toole

  School, Long, Gone

  John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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• It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Long, Wife

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.150, Penguin

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• But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Long, Perfect, Forever

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

  Rick Riordan

  Long, Waiting, Brain

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• He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Long, Littles, Sat

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.874, Pan Macmillan

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• Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Jesus, Long, Done

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.145, University of Illinois Press

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• He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Long, Might, Tomorrow

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.221, Bantam

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• Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Long, Tanning, Problem

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Long, Twelve

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan

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• He has to wair for another load of laundry to get done. So I wait with him. I lean back against the couch, sitting really low the way I like. I scrunch over and put my head on his shoulder. We sit like that for a long time. Watching other people's laundry dry. <3

  Susane Colasanti

  Long, People, Waiting

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• What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is that like in star Wars? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away? Want to tell me where your Tatooine is located? Is it anywhere in this universe? Near Toledo maybe? The one in Ohio or Spain? I’m not picky. Can I MapQuest it? (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stars, War, Mean

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• I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Hands, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience

  Simone Elkeles

  Kissing, Long, Done

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• Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Boys, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.24, Vintage

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• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Knives, Knowing, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.112, Penguin

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• But his pantheon would have survived. (Kat) Would it? Fate is never that simple. It doesn’t go in a straight line, and the more you try to circumvent it, the worse you make it on yourself. Fate will not be denied. Sin would have lost his powers by another means, at another time and place. And whoever took them then might have killed him. Had he died, the world would have ended a long time ago or the gallu would have run free and taken over. There are infinite possibilities. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Taken, Mean

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• Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Love You, Long

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “The Wedding”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Daughter, Dark

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• But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Essence, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage

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• Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Grief, Long

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• And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I’m an asshole. I admit it. I’ve been going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than me. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.757, St. Martin's Press

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