Long Time Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

  William Faulkner

  Long, Reason, Ready

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better. "Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.

  Kevin Hearne

  Expression, Hands, Long

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.50, Del Rey

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

  Ally Carter

  Believe, Heart, Long

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Kind, Eternity

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

  Erin Hunter

  Lying, Long, Secret

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• A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Long, Lost

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• And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Long, People

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

  Anna Godbersen

  Long, Secret, Has Beens

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• We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

  Lynsay Sands

  Blood, Long, People

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