Quotes About Linger
I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
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Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--
~ Gregory Maguire
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When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.
~ Sherwood Smith
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You gazed into my eyes, what could I do but linger? I ran my hand through your hair, and a cootie bit my finger.
~ Meg Cabot
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Because when he returns, Richard, he would be the biggest man in town. He wants revenge on his childhood. He wants the respect of the town. Saint Paul tells us that when we were children we spoke as children, we understood and thought as children but when we become men we put away childish things, but I'm not so sure we ever do put them away. I think the childish things linger on, and your brother craves what he wanted as a child, the respect of his home town
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to...
~ Harper Lee
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The song is over. But the melody lingers on.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Luck is a fickle girl who doesn't like lingering in any one place; she strokes your hair back from your brow, kisses you quickly and flits away. Lady Misfortune, by contrast, presses you tightly to her loving heart; she says she's not in a hurry, sits down beside your bed and knits.
~ Heine
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Every other show that I'm on, they're always rushed, and you feel this pressure to hurry up and get out of the scene, but I don't feel that way on 'Transparent.' They like to linger in these scenes.
~ Rob Huebel
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
~ Sophocles
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Barrett lingers awhile. He's not eager to relinquish the strange pleasure of sitting in the green chair, surrounded by the ever-diminishing offerings that had, just yesterday, been daily articles, watching the apartment disappear, piece by piece.
~ Michael Cunningham
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Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.
~ Cecelia Ahern
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
~ T. S. Eliot
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But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.
~ Julie Gregory
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What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention—spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. His eyes darkened—it was close; and, instinctively turning, in the hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, on his face, on the tomb.
~ Henry James
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Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
~ Walter Cronkite
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It's nice to hold on to a holiday midnight a little longer than usual
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
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When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. ("Taken for a ride)
~ Erik Pevernagie
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But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays with you, to keep you company.
~ Brock Clarke
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Kate stood by the door with her arms crossed. That was an anti-Curran pose. What the hell was the Beast Lord doing here? I padded to the door. "First, you didn't come home." Curran's voice held zero humor. "Second, I'm told that my mate is lingering in Raphael's house. There can't be any good reason for you to be here." "Are you spying on me, Your Furriness?" Kate asked.
~ Ilona Andrews
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The past is a demon that not even death can shake.
~ Steven Erikson
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I felt like they were loitering around in the hope one of us would sup from them later. Perhaps we would find it difficult to leave until we had obliged them.
~ Storm Constantine
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.Words you can't have back, so they linger.
~ Coco J. Ginger
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