That Moment Quotes - Page 9

• When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

  Doris Roberts

  Happiness, Cousin, Laughter

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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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• 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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• 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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• No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

  Simon Roberts

  Photography, Agonizing, Way

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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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• Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Lying, Order

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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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• 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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• 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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• Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself. Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else. "I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?" "You'd think of something." "No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning." "Before breakfast?" "Yes. All right Mission Control?" "All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.

  Hilary McKay

  Morning, Wall, Stupid

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• In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Belief, Moments

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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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