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Quotes About Suddenness

A horse gives way to another horse and then suddenly there are two horses, just like that. That's how I loved you.
~ Ada Limón
the suddenness of the explosion had never left me, I was always looking for something to happen, always expecting it just out of the corner of my eye, certain configurations of people in public places could trigger it, a wartime urgency, someone cutting in front of me the wrong way or walking too fast at a particular angle was enough to throw me into tachycardia and trip-hammer panic, the kind that made me stumble for the nearest park bench;
~ Donna Tartt
A quick change of magnification brought them into close focus—two massively real rockets thundering through the sky. The suddenness of it was shocking.
~ Douglas Adams
As pessoas mais caladas e submissas são muitas vezes capazes da violência mais repentina e inesperada, pois quando perdem o controle, elas o perdem por inteiro!
~ Agatha Christie
Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.
~ Karen Ranney
I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.
~ Ingmar Bergman
All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
~ Thomas Ligotti
She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must be careful. Your voice, the tones it makes, it sounds so strong, as if it could never go away. But it might, all at once, without warning. Certainly
~ Alexander Chee
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
~ Dana Goodyear
coup de foudre. A bolt of lightning
~ Rebecca Winters
The world was cruel and sudden. This he knew for sure. Relax for a moment, breathe in the scent of a rose, rest in the shade, pet a dog, take a sip of lemonade, fall in love with a dreamy-eyed girl or a haunted-faced man, and you are just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Buzzing around the lemonade, you'll find flies. Follow the flies and you'll find death.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
Suddenly he was right there, his mouth on mine, my arms around his neck. Then he stopped. He caught my arms and backed up, studying my face. "Has anyone had access to your drinks recently?" he said. "Any strange allergic reactions? Bug bites?" "Shut up.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
~ Lian Hearn
He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.
~ William Shakespeare
I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning.
~ Ali Smith
The Nazi Party had established itself with startling suddenness in September 1930 as a catch-all party of social protest, appealing to a greater or lesser degree to virtually every social group in the land.
~ Richard J. Evans
I'll let you sweat a while. You ain't gonna know when it's comin' or from where. You'll just be walking along or riding somewhere—and bing—that's it.
~ Richard S. Prather
My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped.
~ Richelle Mead
It's the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I'm awake.
~ Jennifer Niven
Well, let us hope for the best, as Susan says; things are really going well now and if Rumania lines up, the end may come with a suddenness that will surprise us all." Rumania did come in — and Susan remarked approvingly that its king and queen were the finest looking royal couple she had seen pictures of.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The suddenness of his death suggests that the arrow carried a poisoned tip.
~ Laurence Bergreen
It's the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I'm awake.
~ Jennifer Niven