That Moment Quotes - Page 25

My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Love, Christian, Sweet

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I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Matt Damon

Thinking, People, May

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

Christopher Hitchens

Baby, Atheist, Children

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If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.

Rajneesh

Sex, Prayer, Love Is

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I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

Knut Hamsun

Mad, Details, Able

Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Realization, Unions, May

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There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

Jonathan Maberry

Life And Death, Decision, Luck

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

Lauren Kate

Heart, Wind, Feelings

Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.268, Delacorte Press

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At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her.

Julie James

Moments, One Thing

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It wasn't the kind of touch that said, Hey, I've got a plan, so hang in there because we're going to get out of this. It was more like the kind of touch that simply said, You aren't alone. It was really the only thing he could offer. And in that moment, it was enough.

Richelle Mead

Hey, Kind, Moments

Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.242, Penguin

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Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called “Landslide.” When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

Beautiful, Song, Fun

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Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

Jonathan Maberry

Crush, Hurt, Jobs

Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Gabrielle Zevin

Moments, Cried, Ifs

Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done: A Novel”, p.236, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. "Dad-" "Shhh," he said. "No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-

Rick Riordan

Dad, Hero, Littles

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That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.

Ai Yazawa

Heart, Hands, Cry

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He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

David Nicholls

Laughter, Laughing, Feelings

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Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

Susan Hill

Real, Doors, Doubt

Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

J. M. Coetzee

Heart, Sleep, Night

J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

Deb Caletti

Princess, Snow, Gathering

Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

J. K. Rowling

Soulmate, Decision, Moments

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Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

David Levithan

Feelings, Moments

David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

Maya Banks

Real, Eye, Kissing

Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.1063, Penguin

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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Rumi

Spiritual, Loneliness, Alone With God

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She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up. Helplessly he pulled her against him. For a moment she clung to him tightly, warm and alive in his arms. Her hair brushed his cheek. The color had come back into the world; he could breathe again, and for that moment he breathed her in - she smelled of salt, blood, tears, and Tessa.

Cassandra Clare

Wall, Hair, Blood

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But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Anne Michaels

Darkness, Grace, World

Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.175, Emblem Editions

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