Quotes About Linger

Ghosts, they say, stay for three simple reasons: they love life too wholly to leave, they love some other too deeply to part, or they need to linger on for a bit, to coax a distant knife toward its fated throat.

made her unapproachable, apart. She was one of those girls who pass through your life leaving secret wreckage, but no visible wake. You remember her, but for all the wrong reasons.

the dark as it hit late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

The dream recedes, but leaves a residue.

And the same mischievous smile lingered for a long time on her face as if it had been forgotten there.

His gaze lingered upon Abigail

J'existe. C'est doux, si doux, si lent. Et léger: on dirait que ça tient en l'air tout seul. Ça remue. Ce sont des effleurements partout qui fondent et s'évanouissent. Tout doux, tout doux.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

You can bury the past but it always seems to come back, one way or another.

This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

If what remained of the night had a scent, it'd be heavy ash and cheap perfume. If it had weight, it'd be a hangover. If it had emotion, it'd be regret.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep. We remember this feeling so acutely - the desire to linger away the hours with someone else, talking or holding or even just watching a movie. In those moment, the clock seems arbitrary, since you are setting your understanding of time to another, more personal measure.

I want this to be the sand that stays on my fingers.

Boo fell in at my side. He is the only ghost dog I have ever seen. Animals always move on. For some reason he had lingered more than a year at the abbey. Perhaps waiting for me.

rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.

Are you grumpy in the morning?" "No, but I wake up on the go. I don't like to linger over breakfast." "You must not be doing it right. Lingering is lovely . I do it all the time." She stretched her arms and shoulders, and arched her sore upper back, her breast lifting with the motion. Tom stared at her, mesmerized. "I might stay just to watch you linger.

They exchanged a brief grin and Westcliff left the room. "Arrogant, high-handed creature," Lillian remarked, her smile lingering as she watched the earl's departure. "God, I adore him.

There's nothing quite as scorching as a teenager's contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.

She sat back, lifting away her hand. The ghost of its warmth remained on Aaron's skin.

Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next.

Love called, and I could not linger, But sought the forbidden tryst, As music follows the finger Of the dreaming lutanist.

They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.