That Moment Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Thinking, Parent, Moments

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.225, A&C Black

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• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Alaska

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• What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

  Steig Larsson

  Heart, Infatuation, Moments

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• In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fall, Clouds, Wind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Baby, Children

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.106, Penguin

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• I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient. At that moment, honestly, I had grave doubts as to my ability to interact on such a level. I wondered if I could ever become the human I hoped to be.

  Garth Stein

  Worry, Doubt, Desire

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Sam screamed the 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

  Fun, Light, Laughing

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.

  Francoise Sagan

  Morning, Light, Golden

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "What's it going to be, Kat?" It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth; in that moment Kat didn't have a clue what to say. I carn't do this with out you sounded trite. What they were doing was to big for a simple please. Hale I-" You know what? Never mind. Either way, I'm in Kat." He seemed utterly resloved as he slipped on his sunglasses. "I'm all in

  Ally Carter

  Team, Lying, Simple

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• How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

  Michael Buckley

  Ironic, Giants, Moments

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.241, Abrams

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• The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Feet, Crowds

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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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• There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.

  Rick Bass

  Responsibility, Weight, Moments

  Rick Bass (1998). “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.

  Amanda Hocking

  Castles, Band, Care

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Men, Law, Different

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined that you'd have a story, too. Until that moment, you were just the kidnapper. You didn't have reasons for anything. You were stupid and evil and mentally ill. That was all. When you started talking, you started changing.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stupid, Talking, Evil

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.

  Ian Mcewan

  Two, Littles, Might

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• I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

  Jojo Moyes

  World, Moments, Feels

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.314, Penguin

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• And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

  Melina Marchetta

  Suffering, Lucky, Knees

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• They loved so intensely that moments of their life have been etched into the very fabric of the mansion. Some say the king designed it that way, so if one day he lost her he could come live with her residue.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, One Day, Fabric

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• Tessa exhaled. She hadn't realized that she had been holding her breath until that moment. Will must have heard her, for he raised his head and his gaze met hers across the clearing. Something in it made her look away. Agony stripped so raw was not meant for her eyes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Agony, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist’s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Sometimes, Moments

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.75, Hachette UK

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