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Quotes About Moment

How does one end a moment like this? It would kill her to feel him pull away. She had to be first. In a moment. One moment more. Yes. Now
~ Susan Vreeland
stopped right in the middle of the path, cast a furtive glance left and right and then pressed his mouth in full lockdown mode upon hers. Ew.
~ Susan Wiggs
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic
~ Susan Wiggs
Because it would be worse than never having them in the first place. I just enjoy the time I'm given with the animals.
~ Susan Wiggs
No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.
~ Susan Wiggs
Not a rule, but a reminder. We must live this day. We'll never get to live it again.
~ Susan Wiggs
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.
~ Susanna Clarke
ankles. The woman turned just once at the
~ Josephine Cox
You know what I thought the first time I saw you?' 'No.' 'Point of no return.'
~ Josh Lanyon
Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.
~ Josh Lanyon
How many people were content with their lives? How many people were happy—happy in the moment and not in retrospect?
~ Josh Lanyon
If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and turning adversity to my advantage.
~ Josh Waitzkin
You don't see it, but next happens anyway and always. With or without you.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
I put the cookie in my mouth. I drank the cup, all the while looking at a congregation my son belonged in, knowing that it existed only in this moment. I swallowed, and I felt like I was sharing in a spicy, tart communion, strange and rare. It was a taste of the world as I wanted it to be. Inside the house the drapes twitched. The world as it actually was, present and watching.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
He knows me so well. I don't have to say it. Not any of it. Not yet. There will be time for it later. For now, it is enough. It is enough and it is easy. Easy to walk the last few steps between us. Easy and so beautiful to step into his arms. He kisses me. He kisses me. I kiss him back.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Try to see that life is fleeting. Try to absorb and convey carpe diem for the sake of our children.
~ Joshua Braff
she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow for second-guessing.
~ Joshua Ferris
Oh my god," she said out of the blue. "Can you believe it's only three-fifteen?
~ Joshua Ferris
There was beauty to be seen if one simply took the time to behold it. The past was not greater than the present.
~ Josi S. Kilpack
Every night, as we sat down together at the table, I still took Jim's hand and closed my eyes before we lifted our forks, our silent prayer." "There was no need to ask what we prayed for, though I would add three words to the end of it." "Remember this moment.
~ Joyce Maynard
Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.
~ Joyce Wycoff
Cuánto tiempo es para siempre? —preguntó Alicia. —A veces sólo un segundo —respondió el Conejo Blanco. LEWIS CARROLL
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
y se qudó un instante mirando esos ojos grices que no la miraban, o bien que miraban todo con la misma desatención alarmada
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
la reputación: el momento en que una presencia fabrica, para quienes la observan, un precedente ilusorio.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez