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Quotes About Interrupted

I felt sorry that he had suffered so long in the hospital, sorry that even in his last minutes our mindless technology had so rudely interrupted his transition
~ Abraham Verghese
I'm always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I'm a chatty guy.
~ Darren Criss
Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted
~ Agatha Christie
That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.
~ Alan Dean Foster
If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
~ William Falconer
He is no longer the man imprisoned by all the wrong answers at the end of his interrupted life. All at once my father is a child, as uncertain, terrified, and abandoned to the terrible abundance of being alive as I am.
~ Richard Powers
Wait just a minute, Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here— Ares, Poseidon interrupted, they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits. Nor my daughter, Zeus grumbled. She has done well.
~ Rick Riordan
A half-blood of the eldest dogs... Er, Percy? Annabeth interrupted. That's gods. Not dogs.
~ Rick Riordan
I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- Derek? his dad called. Chloe? Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. We seem to get a lot of that, don't we? I said. Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption. I grinned up at him. Sounds like a plan
~ Kelley Armstrong
I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.
~ Deanna Raybourn
What the hell time is it?" muttered the old man. He was always an aggressive sleeper. Sleep was one of the things he did best, and he loved it. Some look upon sleep as an unfortunate necessary interruption of life; but there are others who hold that sleep is life, or at least one of the more fulfilling aspects of it, like eating or sex. Any time my old man's sleep was interrupted, he became truly dangerous.
~ Jean Shepherd
I heard there was a riot.' 'There was a demonstration, which I think is different. It was peaceful until it was interrupted.' Mason seemed to be thinking hard about it. 'What sort of demonstration?' 'Hmm... A new kind. It looked poetical at first but then became rather poletical.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
As Kit reached the part about the schoolmaster and his cane, to her amazement a rusty chuckle interrupted her. Hannah's face had crumpled into a thousand gleeful wrinkles.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
560My mother went on and on about it. Actually she went off on a tangent, I told her about your mother at one point and she went all (H starts doing a lightly French accent) it is not fair for your friend, she is not going to get the important boredoms and mournings and melancholies that are her due and are owing to her just from being the age that she is, for now it will be interrupted by real mournings and real melancholies...
~ Ali Smith
My mother went on and on about it. Actually she went off on a tangent, I told her about your mother at one point and she went all (H starts doing a lightly French accent) it is not fair for your friend, she is not going to get the important boredoms and mournings and melancholies that are her due and are owing to her just from being the age that she is, for now it will be interrupted by real mournings and real melancholies...
~ Ali Smith
Hey," a voice cut me off. "I know you!" I recognised the voice, but more than that I recognised the look on Macey's face as Preston came into view. "Don't you have a baby to kiss?" Macey said with a sigh. "Cammie, right?" Preston asked. "Macey didn't tell me you were coming." "Yeah. It's a great chance to see the political process up close and-" "Seriously," Macey snapped. "Go. Kiss. A baby.
~ Ally Carter
I love movies like 'Girl, Interrupted' and 'Infinitely Polar Bear.' I love action movies.
~ Sasha Lane
A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed. "There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing.
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian," she interrupted. "Didn't you just say I'm brilliant and always know everything? Then trust me on this." "Always," I said, letting her pull me back down to her. "Always.
~ Richelle Mead
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Earth to Sawyer?" Campbell said. I had no idea what I'd missed. "We were just about to discuss how incredibly debonair I look in this hat," Boone informed me, sliding his fingers along its brim. "I was born to fedora." I wasn't sure whether the pained look on Nick's face was the result of Boone's use of the word fedora as a verb or the conversation he, Campbell, and I had been having before we'd been interrupted.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
interrupted, straightening a stack of papers on her desk, then handing the papers to Diane. "That will be all." "Of course," Diane said with a smile. I watched her leave, then looked back at Margaret. "So he shot him twenty-three times with a Glock nine? He
~ Amanda Kyle Williams
I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.
~ Carolyn Chute