Quotes About Moment

She reached out, found Eli's hand, brought it to her lips in a gesture Sophia had never seen her make

Nothing's more powerful than a woman at that instant before she gives herself.

Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

We just had a near-life experience

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No matter what happens, it's always now.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

You had a near life experience.

You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.