Quotes About Encounter

He noticed her. He listened to her. He summoned the nerve to speak to her. And that, as they were both fond of saying when recounting the story of their meeting in subsequent years, was that.

An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.

His blue gaze was intent and not even when a drunk undergrad bumped into the back of his chair and mumbled a slurred, "Sorry, mate," did his gaze waver from mine.

The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.

And then he shoved me through the gate.

I swung my feet off the bed and got on my shoes, and then Liu opened the door and we all jumped back, because Orion was standing right outside like a creeper. He jumped himself, so it wasn't that he'd actually been planning to ambush me; I could only guess that he'd been standing there working himself up to knocking.

We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

I opened the door expecting to find something really horrible inside, and I did: eight freshmen, all of whom turned and stared at me like a herd of small and especially pitiful deer about to be mown down by a massive lorry.

One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock, knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.

Le destin attend toujours au coin de la rue. Comme un voyou, une pute ou un vendeur de loterie : ses trois incarnations favorites. Mais il ne vient pas vous démarcher à domicile. Il faut aller à sa rencontre.

Neri grabbed me by my hair and rummaged in my pockets until he found the keys.

One only invites strangers.

Nuestras miradas se encontraron brevemente. Al poco, mi padre se levantó y se refugió en su habitación, herido de silencio

Checking in? an equally sickly, yellowish woman asked, who seemed to have materialized out of nowhere. Yes, said Mimi, wanting to add, Afraid so!

they were not six people knit close in tight, warm threads of family, but travelers accidentally in the same motel.

Suddenly she saw a flickering light ahead, near the grove. Curious, she drew closer. A veiled figure with black hair and wearing a glowing white gown confronted her. The next instant Helen was struck on the back of her head and fell unconscious

Kitty Meets the Band

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

You are walking down a street and you meet somebody. Anybody. And you look at each other. And you are you. And he is him. Yet when you look at each other, the eyes make a connection. Then you go off one way. And he goes off another way. You go off into different parts of town, and maybe you never see each other again. Not in your whole life.

My name's Jamie,' he says softly. 'Jamie Finch Ã¢â'¬Â¦

They're seeing each other for the first time, two complete strangers, unable to take their eyes off each other. It is the moment his life splits; who he was before he met her and who becomes after.

My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror. It's me, said a familiar voice. ...Eric, what are you doing here? Snuggling.

I met Elvis in your woods one night," Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. "I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

Then I happened upon a whore.