A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.”
Source: Words in Deep Blue
“As if anyone could do such painstaking work when a man is screaming in agony."
"I told you I wouldn't scream," Leo retorted from the bedroom. "I only do that when Marks starts reciting her poetry."
Despite her consternation, Catherine almost smiled.”
Source: Married by Morning
“As if anyone could hold a candle to Jack. It would be like trying to keep one lit in the middle of a tornado”
Source: Mafia Prince
“As if anyone in Paris would believe for a second that I was a top. Not only was I made for being manhandled, I was far too lazy to be anything but a bottom.”
Source: Les Recidivists
“As if Art is the What, not the How!”
“As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.”
Source: This Lullaby
“As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.”
“As if being twelve would change anything.”
Source: The Wolf of Cape Fen
“As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.”
Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician
“As if 'careful' ever has anything to do with Narcolepsy.”
Source: The Little Sleep
“As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.”
“As if drawn to her on a string he closed the door and went to her. In silence he sat on the bed, removed his jacket, managed to pull off his boots. And then he was stretched out beside her. She came to him immediately, curling against his side, warm and soft and her body fitting against his with an aching perfection. As if she belonged there. And as he held her close and listened as her body grew relaxed and her breathing slowed in sleep, he thought for one mad moment that maybe, just maybe, she did.”
Source: A Duke Worth Fighting For
“as if dropped from a great height
falling”
Source: Falling Awake
“As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”
Source: Aquarium
“As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.”
Source: How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend
“As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.”
“As if, for one powerful, engulfing moment, they were the same person, giving and receiving, as the stars faded into the predawn sky.”
Source: Stardust
“As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.”
“As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.”
“As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.”
Source: Night Sweats
“As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.”
Source: Rush
“As if he'd guessed her thoughts, Micah said, "I've risked everything for you." His eyes spoke more than he said aloud.”
Source: The Crimson Crown
“As if he had simply stolen a piece of her heart and without him it refused to beat.”
Source: Stolen
“As if he knew what she had experience, he dipped his chin and continued to stare at her from beneath heavy brows. "Your breasts are very sensitive."
Lily knew it must be so, because his very mention of them made her nipples tighten even more, her breasts heavy and aching. She loved the way his rich, masculine voice made her body melt and her thoughts go languid.
"I promise to discover just how sensitive they can be," he added thickly. "You are very beautiful."
Something squeezed tight in her chest. "I am... quite ordinary."
A new darkness shadowed his features, and it was unlike the hunger with which she was becoming familiar. "You are far from ordinary.”
Source: The Untouchable Earl
“As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.”
Source: This Lullaby
“As if he were reading her thoughts, Klaus put a hand on Violet's shoulder, and she smiled at him. Klaus had known for all his twelve years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting- as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“As if her love had given him his own shape-shifting ability, no matter how much time had passed, when she looked at him, she saw the wild, dark-haired boy she had fallen in love with”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.”
Source: Chain Reaction
“As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”
Source: City of Glass
“As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension.
It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice?
...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time.”
Source: It Chooses You
“As if I'm in the presence of something hallowed and true. Like I'm witness to someone's hidden heart, to some secret ritual. For a while I forget myself and everything I carry. The grief. The guilt. The fear.”
Source: Goodbye Days
“As if I’ve never held dear my feminist rage, never thought about how I feel so politically aligned with womanhood and yet hate inhabiting it, hate it when my body is read as such.”
Source: Hijab Butch Blues
“As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.”
“As if in answer to her question, an odor of decay seeped through thee doorway from the darkened shop.
Senescence, she thought. A beautiful word for what happened to all living things as they progressed toward death. Petals fading, leaves falling, stems beginning to rot.”
Source: The Flower Arrangement
“As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life”
“As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.”
Source: Just Listen
“As if it were a guest of honor bowing out prematurely, the sun sank wide-eyed and mischievous, to where staring was permissible and admiration was the only option, a pastel departure as wondrous and unique as fingerprint.”
Source: A Delirious Summer
“as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.”
“As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.”
Source: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.”
Source: City on Fire
“As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“As if it were the task of every time to be just to everything before it! Ages and generations have never the right to be the judges of all previous ages and generations: only to the rarest men in them can that difficult mission fall. Who compels you to judge? If it is your wish—you must prove first that you are capable of justice. As judges, you must stand higher than that which is to be judged: as it is, you have only come later. The guests that come last to the table should rightly take the last places: and will you take the first? Then do some great and mighty deed: the place may be prepared for you then, even though you do come last.”
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel”
“As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.”
Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi
“as if my own voice
could return me
to myself.”
Source: Brute: Poems
“As if my very soul wavers on the precipice and I must find my wings before the fall.”
Source: Evenfall
“As if nine long years of waiting for you wasn't enough, I still haven't learned to love anyone else but you.”
“As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”
“As if on a conveyer belt, there will be a never ending supply of idiots and jerks that come and go in your life. Whether you stop the belt to dance with any one of them is up to you.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One