Quotes About Moment

Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.

Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight.

he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.

All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.

Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight.

DeschideÈ›i ochii È™i vedeÈ›i cu ei tot ce puteÈ›i înainte s? se închid? pe vecie .

Abram os olhos e vejam o máximo que puderem antes que eles se fechem para sempre.

The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.

Werner lunges for Volkheimer's rifle. All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

Four or five or six or a million heartbeats roll by.

O tempo é algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas mãos para sempre.

Other times, the corpses bear no apparent injuries, and it is these that fill Jutta with dread: people who look like they are a moment away from rising up and slogging back to work with the rest of them.

The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind?

Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body. What do you seek, little snail? Do you live only in this one moment, or do you worry like Professor Aronnax for your future?

Para aquellos hombres el tiempo era un exceso, un barril que se vaciaba lentamente. Cuando en realidad, piensa él, se parece más a un charco luminoso que uno lleva entre las manos y debe proteger con toda su energía, luchar para no derramar ni una sola gota".

This is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.

Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.

He thought he might say more, but something in her face had closed off, and the opportunity passed.

in a moment of disorientation, he feels that he's looking not up but down, as though a spotlight has been shined into a wedge of bloodshot water, and the sky has become the sea, and the airplanes are hungry fish, harrying their prey in the dark.

Para aquellos hombres el tiempo era un exceso, un barril que se vaciaba lentamente. Cuando en realidad, piensa él, se parece más a un charco luminoso que uno lleva entre las manos y debe proteger con toda su energía, luchar para no derramar ni una sola gota.

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.