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Quotes About Moment

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing and you were in the best possible place in the world for it - in a beautiful place of worship, surrounded by grace. Take this time, every minute of it. Let things work themselves out here in India.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped this world more than any other force. That said, she did not wish to die quite this moment. She still wanted to see what would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Si a Dios lo llaman presencia es por algo: Dios está aquí ahora mismo. El lugar para hallarlo es el presente y el momento es ahora.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
at any given moment, and that night, going back to
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He doesn't speak. Instead, he grasps me by the collar of my coat and presses his lips to mine. Kiaran kisses me deeply, with an urgency I never thought him capable of. He kisses me like he knows he's going to die. He kisses me like the world is going to end.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She knew this to be true. Maybe not tonight, but some night soon. She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped this world more than any other force. That said, she did not wish to die quite this moment. She still wanted to see what would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
For a moment she stared at him, panting, breathless and wordless, it seemed, with rage. He'd had no idea she would respond to his capture of her queen so violently. It was rather arousing.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The earl slowly pivoted to face her, the crunching of his boots in the gravel drive loud in the stillness. They stood only a few feet distant. He took a step, his beautiful, heavy-lidded eyes intent on her face.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus. Maximus the man.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home every day to my apartment. I have a moment now and then - as I peel an orange and take it from kitchen counter to table - when I feel almost a pang of contentment, perhaps at that raw colour.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
what was she like? she loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier.
~ Elizabeth Noble
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.
~ Elizabeth Strout
She pushed yesterday, and everything in it, out of her mind, addressing herself, as the sensible should, wholly to the actual moment.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, 'Gradually and then suddenly.' When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too. -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Whatever happened, January would mark the point of no return.
~ Alfred Lansing
They became aware of it suddenly just after four o'clock
~ Alfred Lansing
And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,Such fleet things sweet!
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.
~ Ali Smith
We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.
~ Ali Smith
Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute.
~ Ali Smith
There was once, and there was only once; once was all there was.
~ Ali Smith