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• If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

  Ally Carter

  Littles, Might, Moments

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

  Kevin Powers

  Men, Choices, Illusion

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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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• Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.

  Walker Percy

  Real, People, Gone

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer: A Novel”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mean, Green Fields, Light

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.207, Macmillan

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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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• We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.”-World War Z

  Max Brooks

  War, Order, World

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.83, Broadway Books

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• Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

  Patti Smith

  Compassion, Irony, Moments

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.271, A&C Black

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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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• Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Hilarious, Funny Life, Argument

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.143, Macmillan

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• I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.

  Bela Karolyi

  Success, Sports, Lying

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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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  I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.

  Lauren Oliver

  Song, I Like You, Strong

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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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• I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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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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• If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Oneness, Irritation

  Hugh Prather (2017). “The Little Book of Letting Go: Cleanse your Mind, Lift your Spirit, and Replenish your Soul”, p.20, Conari Press

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