Quotes About Moment

Three mornings later, after the dog walk but before my cereal and cup of tea, in the middle of my writing morning, in what I believe is the middle of a paragraph, I finish a sentence. I lift my pencil a few inches from the page and read it. It's the last sentence of the book. I can't think of another. That's it. I have my underpainting.

I didn't want to miss the euphoria. I haven't, have I? You said it happened at the second-month mark.

swath of time that stretched out

The thoughts came fast, and I caught them, stopping only once to sharpen my pencil with a penknife. I thought of Nell's euphoria and nearly laughed out loud. This little rush of words was the closest

For a moment all my bees have turned to honey. Page 302.

There was nothing more to say so I kissed her and

hunting down those moments that unintentionally tip the reader out of the dream.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

with me an instant before

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment.

I still saw everything through the filter I had created in order to survive. I could not see the happiness that preceded the abyss. I had forced myself not to acknowledge my life's most splendid moment, in order to be able to live out the rest of my life without it. I think that was what had happened. It has changed since, but back then it was impossible for me to embrace the happiness I had lost.

kept the door open long enough to holler after her, "And why can't you hit like a girl?" He stared at her retreating figure and realized that wasn't one of his finer moments.

This moment's chord of earthly commotion will never be struck exactly so again-- though love does love to repeat its favorite lines.

Life is your chance.

One minute you're on top The next you're not watch it drop Making your heart stop Just before you hit the floor

You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment

Why would I not know the context?" He took a single swallow from his glass. "I am the context." He put the glass on the counter, and left. I'm certain of it: that moment, that hard swallow, is when he decided.

Libby can hear the whisper of every moment that this room has existed. Feel every breath of every person who has ever sat where she is sitting.

doorway for a second and looks at her mother, absorbs the shape of her and the exquisite feeling of her existence in the world.

And then, just

Zach said, "I love you, Lula, I love you so much," she didn't stop for even a second before replying that she loved him too. Because right then, for that moment in time, she really did.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.