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Quotes About Tryst

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
~ Brady Udall
I raised one eyebrow in his direction, wondering if that last line had been in their sponsorship contract. In case of unexpected murder, please plug the Tropical Tryst Buffet and the Hula Hibiscus Day Spa.
~ Gemma Halliday
They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. They would be alone, surrounded by darkness and silence: and in that moment of supreme tenderness he would be transfigured. He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment, he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.
~ James Joyce
They glided past, they glided fast, Like travellers through a mist: They mocked the moon in a rigadoon Of delicate turn and twist, And with formal pace and loathsome grace The phantoms kept their tryst
~ Oscar Wilde
There was a fire here, like it or not. Finally, reluctantly, she broke the silence. "Any idea how I'm supposed to get out of here? Or do I get to spend the rest of the night on this extremely comfortable table? Or perhaps more accurately, under it?" He grinned. "Think you can pretend we had a tryst set up in here?" Her mind shot back to that incendiary kiss they'd shared. "I don't think that'll be too hard to do.
~ Unknown
It takes it out of you, writing with heart. And it was just for me really. Sort of a confirmation to myself that my inner diva can still make love to the keyboard when she's in the mood. I have to keep her roped and gagged when I'm writing for the newspapers. They don't like her at all. They don't want love. They want a quick tryst in a motel room that's forgotten in a few hours.
~ Unknown
My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.
~ Radha Ravi
It will be a very short tryst," Lillian assured her. "A quarter hour at most. What could happen in that amount of time?" "From what Annabelle s-says," Evie said darkly, "a lot.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If there is any man in England who is more experienced than Lord St. Vincent at sneaking around for a tryst, I'd like to know who.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Care to drop anchor beside me, lass?" He grinned, wolfishly. "Morning is the fairest time for a tryst, you know.
~ Unknown
Love called, and I could not linger, But sought the forbidden tryst, As music follows the finger Of the dreaming lutanist.
~ Unknown
Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.
~ Alex Rosa, Tryst
Marriage should be a temporary relation," he wrote in his journal during the summer of his chaste tryst with Cary. "When each of two souls ha[ve] exhausted the other of that good which each held for the other, they should part in the same peace in which they met, not parting from each other, but drawn to new society. The new love is the balm to prevent a wound from forming where the old love was detached.
~ Unknown