Long Time Quotes - Page 20

• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Time

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

  Milan Kundera

  Long, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

  Diana Gabaldon

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wise, Men, Long

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• Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Long, Mind

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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• We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

  David Levithan

  Falling In Love, Long, Found

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Pain, Heart, Reality

  Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

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• Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Long, Waiting

  Louisa May Alcott (1871). “Little women, and Good wives, by the author of 'An old-fashioned girl'.”

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• Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Long, People, Together

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.50, Bantam

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• Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Night, Long

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Lying, Believe, Long

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Alec raised his blue eyes."Whos Will?" Magnus exhled a sort laugh."Will.Dear God.That was a long time ago.Will was a Shadowhunter,like you.And yes,he did look like you,but your nothing like him.Jace is much more the way Will was,in personality at least-and my relationship with you is nothing like the one I had with Will.Is that whats bothering you?" "I dont like thinking your only with me because I look like so dead guy you liked.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Bothering You

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• I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

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• He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Eye, Hands

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• Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.

  Koushun Takami

  Home, Ideas, Long

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• Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

  James Patterson

  Two, Long, People

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.

  James Patterson

  Long, Knows

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Beach, Color, Sky

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Oct 29, 2012

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• This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

  Mary Balogh

  Hurt, Heart, Break Even

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

  Loretta Chase

  Love You, Heart, Thinking

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• I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

  Emily Giffin

  Voice, Long, Three

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Long, Tears, Policemen

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• There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

  Shirley Jackson

  Long, House, Clean

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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