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Quotes About Moment

soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was a wild indulgent slope we had cascaded down, and I didn't care. For once in my life, I didn't care about tomorrow. I didn't care if I starved or died. I feasted on the now, and I didn't let myself think about who he was or who I was, only who we were right now in this moment and how he made me feel on this patch of earth, in this patch of shade. In this strange upside-down world, ignoring tomorrow seemed as natural and expected as breathing.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I didn't think about his world or mine or the future we couldn't have. I only thought about the warm light behind my eyelids, his soft murmurs in my ear, and the fullness of what we had in that moment. And we touched in all the ways of yesterday and more.
~ Mary E. Pearson
When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die. *
~ Mary E. Pearson
I looked at her face, gently illuminated by the distant light of the tavern. Even with her brows pulled low and an anguished crease between them, she was beautiful. It was a strange thing to think at the moment. I had deliberately avoided the thought each time I had looked at her before. I couldn't afford such thoughts, but now the word came, unbidden, unrelenting. I
~ Mary E. Pearson
He looks at me and I know he is going to say no but I don't turn away and I don't stop looking because ever since Mira said I noticed him I have made a point not to notice him and for the first time I am noticing that his eyes have a dark ring of brown around a golden iris and I find that infinitely interesting because my eyes are the same color and I think he notices this too at the exact same moment and a chill shivers over me, and like a miracle, he says, "Let's go.
~ Mary E. Pearson
thankfulness for this one moment, regardless of what the morrow might bring.
~ Mary E. Pearson
A spare minute can send us careening down a new path and turn our lives upside down.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.
~ Unknown
the table to wipe her face. An instant later Carter
~ Mary Higgins Clark
The moment was like a tear in the fabric of their love play; underneath, the dark waters of past and future anguish lent poignancy to everything they said and did.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all
~ Mary Lawson
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
~ Mary McDonnell
It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.
~ Mary Renault
I left you to make you understand my mystery. Do not believe others will die, not you. It is not for that I'm your friend. By laying myself on the pyre, I became divine. I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee, and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever, for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear, makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
~ Mary Renault
Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
Stali?my naprzeciwko siebie, zapatrzeni jak wtedy, gdy niespodziewanie spotyka si? jelenia - oboje zastygacie na chwil?, równie zaskoczeni, i to spojrzenie zdaje si? by? pojedynczym, jakby obie strony mia?y te same oczy.
~ Mary Ruefle
Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee , and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me.
~ Marya Hornbacher
My most salient memories
~ Marya Hornbacher