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Quotes About Lost

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.
~ Will Self
each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the lost moments of fifteen and sixteen.
~ William Faulkner
She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.
~ William Gay
a dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self.
~ William Gibson
the moment, Rydell decided he knew for a fact his ass was lost. Just plain lost.
~ William Gibson
Do we have a past, then?" Stonestreet asks. "History is a best-guess narrative about what happened and when," Bigend says, his eyes narrowing. "Who did what to whom. With what. Who won. Who lost. Who mutated. Who became extinct.
~ William Gibson
In the nearly total darkness of a Nighttown noon, who notices a few dozen mad children lost in the rafters?
~ William Gibson
But already he knows that his conscience will never allow him to divest this lost soul of this watch, and the knowledge hurts him. Fontaine has been trying all his life to cultivate dishonesty, what his father called "sharp practices," and he invariably fails. The
~ William Gibson
Nereye gideceÄŸimizi belki biliyorlar, belki de bilmiyorlard?. Ama nerede olduÄŸumuzu bilmiyorlar; çünkü biz gideceÄŸimiz yere varamad?k.
~ William Golding
A word? the Sicilian said, raising his arms. His mile was more angelic than his face Buttercup halted. Speak. We are but poor circus performers, the Sicilian explained, It is dark and we are lost. We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills. You were misinformed, Buttercup told him, There is no one, not for many miles. Then there will be no one to hear you scream.
~ William Goldman
We are but poor circus performers. the Sicilian explained. It is dark and we are lost. We were told that there is a village nearby that might enjoy our skills. You were misinformed, Buttercup said. There is no one not for many miles. Then no one will be able to hear you scream. the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face.
~ William Goldman
Behold, into how great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by inculcating adultery and murder at the same time! And withal, after such audacious acts, they, lost to all shame, attempt to call themselves a Catholic Church!
~ William J. Bennett
Fortune turns like a wheel. One man it lifts, another it sets down! Does not the old man grieve over all he has lost?" "Who can tell? He lives quietly and peacefully, and works well.
~ William J. Bennett
weaknesses—the tendency to get lost in analysis.
~ Chip Heath
Eden is not the thing we seek. It is the thing we cannot find.
~ Chris Abani
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.
~ Chris Claremont
to her, Do yu know the name of dis place where we is at? But the third girl did not know either. She just stood there, and she was wearing a blue T-shirt and blue denim jeans and white Dunlop Green Flash trainers, and she just looked down at her own see-through bag, and her bag was full of letters and documents. There was so
~ Chris Cleave
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~ Chris Grabenstein
yelled 'Where's my stick?
~ Chris Harrison
But the LOST narrative is uniquely intertwined with the Judeo-Christian story, and the beauty of Christianity is found in its unyielding proclamation that no one is beyond redemption--not even a torturer, murderer, or con man.
~ Chris Seay
when the girl disappeared among the
~ Chris Van Allsburg
Maybe he's finally seeing what he lost." "Maybe." All of Harper's doubts were in that word. "Anyway, I've got to say he's the cutest cop I've ever seen." Bonnie handed her the change. "Me, too." Harper gave her a melancholy smile. "But, I broke him last year and I don't know how to fix him.
~ Christi Daugherty
She didn't have a compass, a map, or even a decent sense of direction. She wasn't certain she would recognize herself.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.
~ Christine Feehan