Quotes About Moment

And I look at her and she looks at me and it's like everything just opens up.

This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility.

We see each other, and it is enough. For today.

you live each day one at a time you live every day all at once you live with the possibility of good-bye you move on.

I know people always talk about living in the middle of nowhere—there's always another place (some city, some foreign country) they'd rather be. But it's moments like this that I feel like I live in the middle of somewhere. My somewhere.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

i hold the cigarette like i'm in a black-and-white movie. but when jed lights the match, it spreads to color, his skin in the campfire light, the spark of his eyes as he leans in to me

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present. Her absence was palpable, even though she was still in the room.

and all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera, because the two of you were such a funny picture. Instead, we have this blurry, happy shot, which must mean something to you if you carry it around like this, folded to fit.

indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising, I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

Up or down. We're you in an up or down?

I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

before I can ask you what's going on, you tell me there's something we need to talk about. This is it, the moment before you tell me the precise thing I don't want to know. Is this the zenith? This last moment of ignorance? Or does it come much later?

It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

But what does ready matter, when it's happening?

I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

So finally, as a pair of twentysomething men passed by holding hands, Austin said, Hey, that could be us in ten years. And Hugo said, Or ten months. And Austin said, Or ten days. And Hugo said, Or ten minutes. And Austin said, Or ten seconds. Then they each counted to ten, and held hands for the rest of the day.

Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain. "It's okay," I tell her. "It's okay to be happy." The tears come to her eyes.

I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.

At this particular moment, there's just no question about it.

I have no idea what time it is, what day it is. I have nothing but now. Nothing but here. And that is more than enough.