Quotes About Linger

I hadn't realized till then how a thought, once you have thought it, can never be laid to rest. It may lay low, but any time it can pop right up again, put certain words in your mouth.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

What else is there to say? You carry grudges and regrets for decades, tend them like gravesite vigils, then even after you lay them down they linger on the periphery, waiting to ambush you all over again.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

La un moment dat, spun: - Cred ca trebuie sa plec. Ma saruta. - Sau ai putea sa mai stai putin. Asa ca mai raman.

The voice has been swiftly stilled. Only the echoes and the memory remain; but they will linger.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

I knew you would follow," she said, "and I feared the longer we lingered, the more my da would suffer.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

city, but still it lingered, like a tune or an aroma, set in motion whenever

You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old she-wolves with livid marks running up their ribs and arms, and not to the idea of fights in which people are neither painlessly killed nor painlessly fixed up but linger and die--slowly--or heal--slowly.

Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires a more massive energy.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

She remained standing in the empty gallery long after Jack had been

Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its name, in its atmosphere...

Some echo, no doubt, of the great silence with which her own mother had tormented Aadam Aziz lingered in her ears—because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound

Pete wondered if the endings of things gathered in the corners of a room, hanging down like a spider's web, waiting.

Time passes, but memories linger.

can send a black thread twisting through his mood for days