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Jake eyed his brother. "I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay.""You 're such a geek.""Thesbo.""That's Jack's latest insult."Seth gestured with his wine-glass. "A play on thespian, since Kev's into that.""Rhymes with lesbo," Jake explained helpfully while Anna stifled a groan. "It's a slick way of calling him a girl.
— Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue
An idea hit me so fast I didn't pause to analyse it. I just acted. My body might be constrained, but my head and neck had just enough freedom to shift up-and kiss him.My lips met his, and I learned a few things. One was that it was possible to catch him totally by surprise. His body froze and locked up, shocked at the sudden turn of events. I also realized that he was just as good a kisser as I recalled. The last time we'd kissed had been when he was a Strigoi. There had been an eerie sexiness to that, but it didn't compare to the heat and energy of being alive. His lips were just like a remembered from out time at St. Vladimir's, both soft and hungry at the same time. Electricity spread through the rest of my body as he kissed me back. It was both comforting and exhilarating.And that was was the third thing I discovered. He was kissing me back. Maybe, just maybe, Dimitri wasn't as resolved as he claimed to be. Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time.Instead, I punched him.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life
— Kevin Hearne, Hunted
You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt
— Laurell K. Hamilton, The Killing Dance
...and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.
— Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
You really are a pain in the ass,” he laughs. I swat him playfully, laughing too as a single tear rolls down my cheek. He wipes it away and tucks my hair behind my ear, “But you’re my pain in the ass.
— Kandi Steiner, Tag Chaser
A woman needs a man like a tortoise needs a crah helmet.
— Jeanette E. Mathews
I don’t think this is working out between us,” I told him. “You and I want different things. It’s not me, it’s you.
— T.J. Klune, Tell Me It's Real
Everybody! This is my cousin right here, and he just dethroned God's gift to Women - Griffin
— S.C. Stephens, Reckless
Calm your tits, pussycat.
— Ella Dominguez, The Art of Control
I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.
— Anyta Sunday, Noticed Me Yet?
I could’ve knocked the shit out of her .She’d have good reason to roll her eyes then. But knocking the shit out of rude people wasn’t my style. Heckling them every chance I got was. Hopefully she’d screw up soon. I didn’t have all day.
— Darynda Jones, Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
She stared into his eyes and announced, “A good-bye kiss.”It was at that Raid stopped dead. “What?”“Raiden, the gig is up,” she declared, and Raid closed his eyes.Jesus, how could the woman be so infuriating and so fucking cute all at once?He opened his eyes and asked, “The gig is up?”She leaned into him and hissed, “Yes.”Fuck, he wanted to kiss her.He also wanted to shak
— Kristen Ashley, Raid
We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
— Eddie Izzard
I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Care to explain?” Ari asked.“Didn’t you see my signals?”“Yeah. But they didn’t make sense. Five into one and it’s an intrusion.”“It’s an illusion! Five of them are an illusion.”“That’s not the signal for illusion. This is.” Ari demonstrated the proper signal.“That’s what I did.”“No, you didn’t. You did a weird twisty thing with your pinky.”“I had a scimitar at my throat. I’d like to see you try signaling under those conditions.”-Janco and Ari bickering
— Maria V. Snyder, Power Study
Bucket had started his criminal career in Braas, not far from when Allan and his new friends now found themselves. There he had gotten together with some like-minded peers and started the motorcycle club called The Violence. Bucket was the leader; he decided which newsstand was to be robbed of cigarettes next. He was the one who has chosen the name- The Violence, in English, not swedish. And he was the one who unfortunately asked his girlfriend Isabella to sew the name of the motorcycle club onto ten newly stolen leather jackets. Isabella had never really learned to spell properly at school, not in Swedish, and certainly not in English.The result was that Isabella sewed The Violins on the jackets instead. As the rest of the club members had had similar academic success, nobody in the group noticed the mistake. So everyone was very surprised when one day a letter arrived for The Violins in Braas from the people in charge of the concert hall in Vaxjo. The letter suggested that, since the club obviously concerned itself with classical music, they might like to put in am appearance at a concert with the city’s prestigious chamber orchestra, Musica Viate.Bucket felt provoked; somebody was clearly making fun of him. One night he skipped the newsstand, and instead went into Vaxjo to throw a brick through the glass door of the concert hall. This was intended to teach the people responsible lesson in respect. It all went well, except that Bucket’s leather glove happened to follow the stone into the lobby. Since the alarm went off immediately, Bucket felt it would be unwise to try to retrieve the personal item in question.Losing the glove was not good. Bucket had traveled to Vaxjo by motorbike and one hand was extremely cold all the way home to Braas that night. Even worse was the fact that Bucket’s luckless girlfriend had written Bucket’s name and adress inside the glove, in case he lost it."For more quotes from the novel visit my blog: frommybooks.wordpress.com
— Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.
— Mita Jain, In Love of Honey, Money....and My Virgin Passport
Am I picking you up tonight?” he asked. “Or do you still think I'm an ax murderer who might break into your house and off you and your family?”“Pretty sure you'd go all parkour on us. Instead of using an ax.”“Parkour? You think I'd use your family as an obstacle course?”“What?” I asked.He smothered a laugh. “Parkour is non-contact.”I felt my face redden. How was I supposed to know all that guy crap?
— Anna Cruise, It Was You
Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.
— Anne Tenino, Too Stupid to Live
One quick glance around the room and I realise that I have somehow stumbled into a wannabe serial killer convention. Every single person in the room looks as if they are concealing a weapon of some sort. My heart thuds rapidly in my chest as I sneak past an elderly man who grins lecherously at me, flashing his gold tooth. Oh dear God, I’m going to die!First, I get dumped – on my birthday no less – and now I’m going to get knifed in some seedy bar!
— Joanne McClean, Blue Eyes and Sweet Peach Pie
Mew - mew. Mew.” I jump back from her finger swipes. “I am fluent in pussy, but I have no idea what this fucking means, Georgia.
— Pella Grace, Knock Love Out
I want you to get a haircut so you don't look like Ish Kabibble on a rainy night.
— E. L. Doctrow
For a split second, I wondered if he were some type of sexy sorcerer, who was able to remove my clothing by the force of his will alone. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused on the buttons of his shirt, willing them to pop
— M.C. Lavocat, Control
I said. “I’m fine. I have a little bit of a head ache, but I’m not dizzy or nauseous. I can walk and talk just fine, and I can remember everything.” “Everything, huh? Don’t self-diagnose, Doctor Fisher. Do you remember when the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought?” “The what?” “The Battle of Bunker Hill. We covered it in World Civ.” “No, we did not.” “We did, too. The unit on the American Revolution.” “Davin, that was like, two years ago! I don’t remember stuff like that!” “So, not everything.” “Everything important.” “That happens to have been a very significant battle,” Davin reminded me, in a smug tone.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
How can you stand touching her?” my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?”I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.”Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepellingglove for his—”“Gretchen!” my father cut her off.My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter.“He has a natural immunity,” I gritted out.
— Jeaniene Frost, Once Burned
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
— Albert Einstein
You've always been there for me. Always. Even when I…" V"Even when you what?" B"You know." V"What?" B"Fuck. Even when I was in love with you. Or some shit." VButch clasped his hands to his chest. "Was? Was? I can't believe you've lost interest." He threw one arm over his eyes, all Sarah Bernhardt. "My dreams of our future are shattered—" B"Shut it, cop." VButch looked out from under his arm. "Are you kidding me? The reality show I had planned was fantastic. Was going to pitch it to VH1. Two Bites Are Better Than One. We were going to make millions ." B"Oh, for the love.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar."Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.
— Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
I've got everything ready to go," I said once he was finally awake and dressed.All the tenderness and vulnerability was gone from his face when he said, "Go where?""America?"His eyes narrowed. "This is America.""This is Canada.""Which is in North America."Silly Canadians wanting be part of the Cool Kids Club.
— Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.
— Eoin Colfer
You sure are a sweet girl, Scout. I'm half tempted to keep you.""Ummm... Thanks?" Knowing she was a potential Alpha I worried about what "keeping me" might entail. Probably chains. And whips. And maybe a dog collar.And now I was going to have to live with scary Fifty Shades Aunt Rachel pictures living in my head for all time.
— Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
You look worse today than you did when you had two blackeyes.”“Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.
— Gwen Hayes, So Over You
Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.
— Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.
— Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
— Tammy Blackwell
You ‘accidentally’ touched his bottom? Didn’t that happen when you last saw him aswell? Surprising how often that seems to be a problem.
— Twisted Hilarity, Husbands for Peace
No punching?" he asked."No.""No kicking?""No.""How about arm wrestling?""No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."Fate Succumbs
— Tammy Blackwell
i like it because it is so funny and harry is so rude and but sometime he ca be nice to people.
— Suzy Kline, Horrible Harry Moves up to the Third Grade
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
— R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
You know I'll be Your Life Your VoiceYour Reason To BeMy Love My Heart Is Breathing For this Moment in TimeI'll Find the words to sayBefore You leave me Today
— One Direction
If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be your life, your voice, your reason to be. My love, my heart is breathing for this moment in time. I'll find the words to say before you leave me today.
— One Direction
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.
— Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Moments. All gathering towards this one.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique
— Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
— Paulo Coelho
When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.
— Jim Geoghan, Light Sensitive
We make patterns, we share moments.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.
— Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..	 Just a trick of the woods!	 Just a moment,	 One peculiar passing moment.	 Must it all be either less or more,	 Either plain or grand?	 Is it always 'or'?	 Is it never 'and'?	 That's what woods are for:	 For those moments in the woods...	 Oh, if life were made of moments,	 Even now and then a bad one--!	 But if life were only moments,	 Then you'd never know you had one.	 First a witch, then a child, then a Prince, then a moment--	 Who can live in the woods?	 And to get what you wish, only just for a moment--	 These are dangerous woods..	 Let the moment go..	 Don't forget it for a moment, though.	 Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'	 Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.	 Now I understand--And it's time to leave the woods.
— Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.
— Steve Yarbrough, Safe from the Neighbors
I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Keys to the Repository
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do
— Danielle Steel
We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?
— Christine Feehan, Oceans of Fire
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.
— Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again.
— John Fowles, The Magus
I have rare moments of competence.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.
— Nora Roberts, Bay of Sighs
...do you ever know a moment is important as it's happening, or is it only when you look back that you can see your life is changed?
— Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.
— Marty Rubin
Our biggest moments have happened in silence. In glances and embraces. As though our souls had found rest within each other. As though our hearts were memorizing the feelings and inscribing them in a language no one else could understand.
— Liz  Newman
To believe in moments makes life endless, no?
— Meia Geddes, Love Letters to the World
He kisses my tears, and I laugh. This is a moment. I want to remember this moment. Every detail, every sense. It's one of those moments in life that makes everything else worth it. One of those moments that feels like an eternity of bliss in one tiny bite of time. It's one of those moments that falls from some heavenly plane to remind you that life can be wonderful.
— Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now
if you worry about yesterdays moments, you are loosing your moments to live today!!
— Anonymous
Jesse and I might as well be caught in a snow globe. Tonight is just a single perfect moment trapped in glass. Tomorrow our protective bubble will be shattered.
— Paula Stokes, Ferocious
Don't feel moments in a life, feel lives in a moment
— Dr Rafiq Dar
We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at that moment, it was those things that kept me alive.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. Define coat, I tell myself. Define time, define space.
— Don DeLillo, Zero K
The moment you stop and look around, you will get to know that you have so many small moments full of happiness. So just be thankful, as many others don’t have these moments. There are also some who do, but can’t visualize them; and even some who have, but can’t appreciate them.
— Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life
There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.
— Matthew Culberson, After Life
Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.
— Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Look, now, in the distance, a person, closer, it's two people, hand in hand, ankle deep in the froth. Sunrise in hair, blonde, green bikini, tall, shining. They kiss. Handsy things happening underneath hist trunks, her tongue. Who wouldn't envy such youth, who wouldn't grieve what has been lost in watching. They come up the dune, she pushing him backward, up. Study them from the balcony, holding your breath while the couple stops in a smooth bowl of sand, protected by the dunes. She pushes down his trunks, he takes off her bathing suit, top and bottom. Oh yes, you would return to your wife on hands and knees, crawl the distance of the eastern seaboard to feel her fingers once more in your hair. You are unworthy of her. Yes. No. Even as you think of flight, you're transfixed by the lovers, wouldn't dare move for fear of making them flap like birds into the blistered sky.They step into each other, and it's hard to tell where one begins and one ends. Hands in hair and warmth on warmth, into the sand her red knees raised, his body moving. It is time. Something odd happening though you are not ready for it. There is an overlap. You have seen this before, felt her breath on your nape, the heat of her beneath, and the cold damp of day on your back, the helpless overwhelm, a sense of crossing. The sex reaching it's culmination. Come. Lip bitten to blood and finish with a roar and birds shoot up and crumbles in the pink folds of an ear. Serrated coin of sun on water. Face turns skyward. Is this drizzle? It is. Sound of small sheers closing. Barely time to register the staggering beauty and here it is, the separation.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record, for it suggests a clear history of cause and effect that can only betray our sense of what really happened.
— Steven Millhauser, Voices in the Night: Stories
The sacred moment is splendid.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not always Like this,it is much more worse,Though,today seems endless,Still it Passes .
— Syed Murtaza Haroon
Judah knew Noa hadn't said it was good-bye. She'd done it as he would have done it, if he'd had the chance: with just an ordinary moment. Unremarkable moments were the ones you missed the most- the ones you didn't realize were precious at the time, and so later could not remember. The moments you lost, when you lost a sister.
— Lauren Bird Horowitz, Shattered Blue
Great moment, unforgettable memory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I was so utterly content that I was slightly wistful. It was the feeling I got when I was about to finish a really great book. I was nostalgic for this moment even as I was still in it.
— Noelle Hancock
It feels great to recall great times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The events of life are unrepeatable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd
— Dan Simmons
The saved moment is the true art of love.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
A moment in time consists of multiple moments.
— Khalid Masood
Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective.
— Andrea Goeglein
The other thing about moments that are given to us? They’re limited. We don’t get an endless amount. If you miss them, they’re gone. Time machines don’t exist; you can’t go back and fix what’s been broken.
— Rachel Van Dyken, The Consequence of Loving Colton
Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let’s take every second to make the most out of every moment.
— Auliq Ice
His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The gift of today, blessings of the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
Must it all be either less or more,Either plain or grand?Is it always 'or'?Is it never 'and'?That's what woods are for:For those moments in the woods...Oh, if life were made of moments,Even now and then a bad one--!But if life were only moments,Then you'd never know you had one....to get what you wish, only just for a moment--These are dangerous woods!Let the moment go...Don't forget it for a moment, though.Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.Now I understand--And it's time to leave the woods.
— Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
— Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?
— Matthew Donnelly
The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...you can’t plan out or perfectly schedule the big moments in your life. They just happen to you when they happen, sometimes because you made them happen and sometimes because you couldn’t stop them from happening.
— Caitlin Rush, Curses Beneath Her Feet
whenever i am in pain,i just think of watching your eye's in rain!
— A.R.Maria
Time does not wait for you , you wait for the time
— Bavia Dinesh
You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Sometimes... the smallest drops in the bucket make the biggest ripples.
— A.M. Hodgson, Sonata
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.
— Anne Ortlund
From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people
— Nathanael Kanyinga
Most Sexiest Moment is "CELEBRATION
— m. shahid nadeem
I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs’ leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother’s dip-pen, the smell of the trees, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I wished a sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like sleep over the castle of sleeping beauty.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
How quickly a moment sinks into the past.
— Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet
The moment we confront our fears we are declaring that we are contenders for life, and for love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However…I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
We all have our pasts and baggage, Mimi. It’s our decision whether they fuck with our future.
— Katie Ashley, Beat of the Heart
The greatest moment of your life is now. Not because it's pleasant or happy or easy, but because this moment is the only moment you've got. Every past moment is irretrievably gone. It's never coming back. If you live there, you lose your life. And the future is always out there somewhere. You can spend an eternity waiting for tomorrow, or worrying about tomorrow. If you live there, you likewise will lose your life. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
— John Ortberg, God Is Closer Than You Think: If God Is Always with Us, Why Is He So Hard to Find?
It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.
— Orhan Pamuk
It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.
— Banana Yoshimoto, N.P
Moments never wait for anyone, slowly the new moment pushes the old moment back and then it never comes back. That's what makes them precious.
— Himanshu Chhabra
To Cono’s mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration—the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.
— Anne Fortier, Juliet
Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status
— Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others
Moments are precious in life
—  they transform time into timeless dreams.
Over the years since that time I seemed to fall back into sales as a mainstay of existence of some kind, and I have learned many valuable lessons along the way. It has not always been rainbows and sunshine, but I have tried to gain knowledge from every experience along the journey. There have been many, many great moments; far too many to recount in one sitting. It is the great moments that outweigh the others.
— Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly
There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
All we get are moments, Cole. One at a time, like heartbeats. Once all of them is gone, that’s it. No do-overs. No repeats. Every moment possesses its down kind of magic and what we do with it counts. It counts.
— Autumn Doughton, In This Moment
these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.
— Danny Wallace, Charlotte Street
Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and he miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks - ...it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full. page 72
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.
— C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The present was perfect and I wasgoing to stay in it for as long as possible.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.
— Thomas B. Dowd III
Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.
— Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle
That good or bad momentS never be forgetten. It Store alwayS in any corner it will remembered at right time automaticaly. No one can eraSe it but Simply it forgotten for Some time till the true time.
— Sumit Lakhani
Be ready for every moment, you don’t know which check is the checkmate.
— M.F. Moonzajer
That good or bad momentS never be forgetten. It Store alwayS in any corner of your mind or heart it will remembered at right time automaticaly. No one can eraSe it but Simply it forgotten for Some time till the true time.
— Sumit Lakhani
The treasure of those moments Is sealed somewhere down Only you can unlock it The hope is still alive.
— Balroop Singh
There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her.
— Kady Cross, The Girl in the Clockwork Collar
Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
— Franz Grillparzer
In moments such as these, it’s the minor seconds that count. Seconds that can make or break you. Seconds that can save your life.
— Rebecca A. Rogers, Last Summer
I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.
— Janette Rallison, My Double Life
This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I wouldn’t let Him open up and heal. When Garrett saw me walk off alone over the sandy hills, he knew God was leading me to a healing moment. Standing on the edge of the salty waters of Puget Sound, I allowed God to reach into the darkest places in my heart and expose the ugly lies I believed about myself. Huge salty tears pouring out like waves, God assured me He threw my sins out as far as the east is from the west. The tremendous shame and guilt I carried for so many years was being literally washed away into the Pacific Ocean. I was no longer a broken child of sexual abuse but a cherished Champion daughter of the Most High God.
— Shelley Lubben, Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth
An empty mind is like a mirror that reflects reality in minute detail.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embr
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.
— Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 22
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.
— Ani DiFranco
I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.
— Chester Bennington
Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different--something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth. That goodnight in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.
— David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
You're a crazy woman, looking for an honest liar."Kyra to Rey (Reyes)
— Ava Gray
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
— Gloria Steinem
If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some perverse twist of fate it becomes a trial by jury, you will then have the opportunity of sitting on the witness stand and reciting under oath the facts of the case-a brief moment in the sun that clouds over with the appearance of the aforementioned defense attorney who, at worst, will accuse you of perjuring yourself in a gross injustice or, at best, accuse you of conducting an investigation so incredibly slipshod that the real killer has been allowed to roam free. Once both sides have argued the facts of the case, a jury of twelve men and women picked from computer lists of registered voters in one of America's most undereducated cities will go to a room and begin shouting. If these happy people manage to overcome the natural impulse to avoid any act of collective judgement, they just may find one human being guilty of murdering another. Then you can go to Cher's Pub at Lexington and Guilford, where that selfsame assistant state's attorney, if possessed of any human qualities at all, will buy you a bottle of domestic beer. And you drink it. Because in a police department of about three thousand sworn souls, you are one of thirty-six investigators entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead. You avenge those lost to the world. Your paycheck may come from fiscal services but, goddammit, after six beers you can pretty much convince yourself that you work for the Lord himself. If you are not as good as you should be, you'll be gone within a year or two, transferred to fugitive, or auto theft or check and fraud at the other end of the hall. If you are good enough, you will never do anything else as a cop that matters this much. Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been. When Cain threw a cap into Abel, you don't think The Big Guy told a couple of fresh uniforms to go down and work up the prosecution report. Hell no, he sent for a fucking detective. And it will always be that way, because the homicide unit of any urban police force has for generations been the natural habitat of that rarefied species, the thinking cop.
— David Simon
...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.
— Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
— William Shakespeare
Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.
— Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
if you want to be understood ...Listen.
— Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel: A Film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Progress? Oh, I think so. The iceman melteth.
— Ava Gray, Skin Tight
You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.
— Matt Forbeck, The Con Job
We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
— Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.
— Henry David Thoreau
At that point, I realized that I could see myself in all things… objects, people, places, experiences, what have you… as long as I was willing to look. And I guess that’s it… as we begin to look through the layers of our own existence, their green gems will reveal themselves. It’s up to us to polish them with prominence. And let them shine.
— Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme
Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.
— Ross Caligiuri
And then it all came rushing back
—  that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.
...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...
— Sara Foster
Mystics love to make things as obscure as possible, I've learned, and never use a sentence when a paragraph of riddles will do. Priests, savants, politicians, and barristers are much the same.The ambitious believe that if you want people to think you're smart, pose as pretentiously as possible and charge a premium for confusion and wasted time.
— William Dietrich
Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly the kind of total power they have over them and when the temptation to shatter them with one word, one phrase is overwhelming, but something – just the vague knowledge perhaps that the mess they create would be too great to gather – holds them back.
— Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great
When did we revert back to sticks and shields,Uniform uniforms, stylized agenda reveals,Hiding behind glass with nods to our reflection,Blocking out the light that sparked the deception?Who do we see staring across the isle,A path once for feet now stretched into miles,Removed from our view to a place unseen,Forcing poisonous venom through a flickering screen?Where should we gather outside of the homes,But a place for the masses to manifest from their phones,The hatred and evil broadcasting the waves,Telling you daily, “Elvis lives and Jesus saves”?What could restart a flawed mental state,Built on cause and guilt for an unfulfilled faithIn policy, redemption, a nation self aware,Our values compressed and trapped in despair?How can we rise with the odds in their favor,Sedated once more, still waiting for a SaviorWilling to spare from thoughts profound?Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.
— Ross Caligiuri
They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.
— Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.
— Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
I want you to write down your blessings.
— Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
Ii do not walk with alienation everywhere I go in the world. I have been to small taverns in rural Ohio, big city bars, San Francisco bath houses, and in all these have felt welcome and happy. But walking through that sunglassed throng, I felt like a Martian. I didn't hate the feeling - indeed, being a black woman in the academy, it wasn't new to me - but it was interesting. I kept wondering: where is the performance? When will the performance start? Is this the performance - me walking through this space without sunglasses with all these Nordic quasi-hipster white people in multi-colored, motorcycle cop sunglasses?
— Gabrielle Civil, Swallow the Fish
We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Change shouldn’t be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.
— Pearl Zhu, Change Insight: Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
Sometimes we have to go through hell to get to heaven. It is because when you on your journey the road isn't always straight and easy.
— Jackson Taviri
There are secrets in life. You just have to understand how to unlock them
— Jackson Taviri
How can things get done if you behave like what you despise.
— Jackson Taviri
Fear is something explorers lacked, therefore, they discovered great wonders.
— Jackson Taviri
Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
It’s not about the powers, man; it’s that we aren’t kids anymore. Look what we’ve beenthrough. Look what we’ve done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We’ve done something none of ourparents have even come close to. We didn’t take over their boring world; we took over a world about athousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won’t have to bow our heads to anyone.
— Michael  Grant, Light