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Quotes About Pause

I measure the moment in the heartbeats I skip
~ David Levithan
They still have plenty to say to each other, just not anything right now.
~ David Levithan
Rest, v. and n. Rest with me for the rest of this. That`s it. Come closer. We`re here.
~ David Levithan
it is hard for us to be alone between school and our friends and our families and his track practice and my literary magazine. so this pause is heaven, feeling entirely open
~ David Levithan
She paused, and I took the opportunity to practice the only promotional skill at my disposal: fluttering my fingers over the telephone's mouthpiece, I attempted to cast a spell, silently chanting, It's me who you want. Me, me, me.
~ David Sedaris
With me he [Lamin] would wait till I finished each sentence, and leave long gaps of silence before he replied, silences I came to think of as conversational graveyards, where anything awkward or unpleasant I might have presented to him was sent to be buried.
~ Zadie Smith
Belding hesitated and looked
~ Zane Grey
Por alguns instantes, Liesel ficou calada. Era uma daquelas conversas que precisam que um tempo se escoe entre um dito e outro.
~ Unknown
The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.
~ Sheila Heti
Anytime you got time to rest, it always helps.
~ Derrick Henry
Stop for a Moment , Close Your Eyes and Breathe ... Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
It is good to make an end of movement, to come to a point of rest, a place of pause. There is some strange magic in activity, in keeping at it, in continuing to be involved in many things that excite the mind and keep the hours swiftly passing. But it is a deadly magic; one is not wise to trust it with too much confidence. The moment of pause, the point of rest, has its own magic.
~ Howard Thurman
Popped to the loo.
~ Ian Rankin
Rebus stopped her and turned to Chilton. 'Why isn't Neil
~ Ian Rankin
There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness, this snapping of all the customary little threads of cause and effect that are our moorings at other times. Slowly they all drew back from me step by step, until I was left there alone, cut off. ("All At Once, No Alice")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Stop looking ahead, stop looking back. Stop... look around.
~ Unknown
A pause. It might have been pregnant. I've never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not.
~ Lois Greiman
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest
~ Lord Byron
The couple go still. In
~ Unknown
every few minutes. Harrington did it
~ Unknown
I made a tactical error tonight with Wyatt. She paused Horizontally. Sara laughed. Again?
~ Jill Shalvis
I'm putting a temporary hold on the 'stay away from me' thing,'" she said. "just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we're definitely going right back to it.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think.
~ Jim Butcher
Sir, said the guard from behind me. I'd appreciate it if you left your club here. I paused and looked over my shoulder, He had a gun. His hand wasn't exactly resting on it, but he'd tucked his thumb into his belt about half an inch away. It isn't a club, I said calmly. It's a walking stick. Six feet long. It's traditional Ozark folk art. With dents and nicks all over it. I thought about it for a second. I'm insecure? Get a blanket.
~ Jim Butcher