Quotes About Encounter

As Muire and the pretty gigolo sat down, the landlord appeared from his strategic retreat and came to them across the empty bar.

Funny story, but the coincidence of our last names ending in the same letter is what led two such disparate types as Connla and myself to meet and team up in the first place. It's a long story involving being sorted onto the same team for a pub quiz.

Salisbury pushed the heavy door a little more open and came forward, the sleeves of his black robe rippling in the cold breeze from the window.

A Gallic-nosed fellow, slight with silver-shot dark curls and dark eyes, brushed rudely past them just as Jack returned from the top of the plank. He reeked of vertiver and musk; Jack's nose wrinkled as he passed, and he half-smiled at himself to realize how accustomed he'd become to the Puritan cleanliness of American colonials, and their aversion to heavy perfumes.

Muire had never expected the Technomancer, as people were beginning to call her, to come to her door.

Pray let us greet our host and the guest of honor, that I may receive my measure of scorn from each and we may be away.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

I am often upset when I meet a person again.

It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but she existed, and he would run into her, and with time I would accept it.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.

After one of my falls, Bednarski pointed out to me a tarantula the size of my fist sitting on the next tree over.

The first view I got of Suci was her prodigious backside.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

approaching Kyle. The Tangs

Abyss calls to abyss." It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be changed into love.

He was the brother of the one that [I'd photographed]. I was just walking in the mall, ran into him, didn't know him from Adam—how many are the chances of that happening? Astronomical." When I read this, I stared at it. Was this a slip of the tongue by a serial killer who severed heads, who'd admitted being in Miami when the Walsh child was reported lost?

The idea of a man going about London haunted by the fear of meeting a young man with spectacles struck Dyson as supremely ridiculous;

As I glanced up I had looked straight towards the last house in the row before me, and in an upper window of that house I had seen for some short fraction of a second a face. It was the face of a woman, and yet it was not human.

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

Døra ble åpnet av en kvinne med unnselig utseende, og hun så litt forbauset ut da hun fikk se sin mann og en fremmed stå der med armene fulle av duftende planter. – Helvi, disse plantene tilhører denne mannen, og vi skal ha dem i klesskapet inntil han trenger dem.

Estoy harto de este matasiete de salón, con su cordón rojo y su desvergüenza camuflada tras una seca cortesía que a nadie engaña. Si me anda buscando, es hora de que me encuentre.

Acudiendo a la cita como la mayor parte de las mujeres acudían a la primera cita: más por curiosidad y desafío que por deseo.