Quotes About Moment

John?" she said. As it was dark, he whistled a What? "You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are." She reached up and cupped his face. It happened so fast, he couldn't believe it. Later, he would play and replay everything over and over again, stretching out the moment endlessly, reliving it and taking a strange kind of nourishment from the memory, again and again.

Fritz, the doggen butler, presented him with a barf bag at exactly the right moment. A barf bag. A hospital-grade, bright-green barf bag. As

Tragedy was but a moment. Responsibility for it was forever.

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.

Assail picked that moment to scream again—which

All his life he'd wondered why he'd never fallen in love, and now he knew: He'd been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time.

It was the kiss. For that brief moment, the volume of her world had been cranked up to Metallica levels, and she had loved the booming bass, and the spinning and twirling, and the sense that her heart had taken flight and not left her body, but taken her physical form along with it.

The past was permanent in the same way the future was always just a hypothetical, two ends of a spectrum where one was concrete and the other air, and the instantaneous now, the single real moment, was the fixed point from which the weight of life hung and swung.

A second can change a lifetime forever.

Più tardi, molto più tardi, lui si sarebbe ricordato di quel momento tra loro…sembrava dover durare per sempre, allungarsi verso l'infinito. Tutti i dettagli si impressero nella sua memoria, dalla scintilla nei suoi occhi alla lucentezza dei capelli, dal modo in cui sorrideva al rossore sulle guance. I ricordi diventano speciali quando sono tutto quello che ti rimarrà dell'amata.

Lo que hay entre nosotros. Tal vez sea un asunto de una noche o dos. Tal vez dure un mes. Tal vez una década. Lo único que sé es que la vida es demasiado corta como para no regresar aquí y estar contigo otra vez de esta manera. La vida es demasiado corta y me gusta mucho estar contigo como para preocuparme por algo distinto a tener otro momento como éste.

But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

A moment was all it took to change the course of everything. The problem was. . .no one knew which moment was going to matter, and there were so many, so very many.

Lo que necesitaba en ese momento era una buena carrera. Una larga... carrera. ¿Qué importaba que no llevara a ninguna parte? Al menos podría tener la ilusión de escapar de sí mismo.

Charting is a little like surfing. You don't have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when it's happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

And to live even a few seconds longer, [...] was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!

In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.

Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.

We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.

I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.