A Quotes
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“Abruptly, Elliot startles us all by standing and pulling his chair back so it scrapes across the tile floor. All eyes turn to him. He gazes down at Kate for one moment and then drops to one knee beside her.
Oh. My. God.
He reaches for her hand, and silence settles like a blanket over the entire restaurant as everyone stops eating, stops talking, stops walking, and stares.
"My beautiful Kate, I love you. Your grace, your beauty, and your fiery spirit have no equal, and you have captured my heart. Spend your life with me. Marry me."
Holy shit!”
Source: Fifty Shades Freed
“Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt myself staring at him with crystal clear eyes... From that time on I was in love with Omi.”
Source: Confessions of a Mask
“Abruptly, I realized the familiar look in Max’s round blue eyes, which had been so compelling, was sadness.”
Source: The Wanderess and her Suitcase
“Abruptly, she yanked the covers over her crippled one, hiding it from him.
Tohr marched right back over to her, and resolutely pulled the duvet back where it had been. Tracing the badly healed wounds with his fingertips, he met her squarely in the eye.
"You're beautiful. Every inch of you. Don't think for a moment there's anything wrong with you. We clear?"
"But-"
"Nope. I'm not hearing that." Bending down he pressed his lips to her shin, her calf, her ankle, tracing the scars, caressing them. "Beautiful. All of you."
"How can you say that," she whispered blinking back tears.
"Because it's the truth."Straightening, he gave her a final squeeze. "No hiding from me, okay. And after I feed you, I think I'm going to have to show you just how serious I am."
That made her smile....then laugh a little.
"That's my girl." he murmured.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Abruptly, the sea of people parted . . . and then there they were. Bella, with Nalla in her arms, Z standing beside his girls.
Beth broke down all over again as the female came forward.
God, it was impossible not to remember how Nalla had started this, putting into motion the need that had become undeniable.
Bella was tearing up, too, as she stopped. “We just want to say yay!”
At that moment, Nalla reached out to Beth, a gummy smile on her face, pure joy radiating out.
No turning that down, nope, not at all.
Beth took the little girl out of her mother’s arms and positioned her on her chest, capturing one of the pinwheeling hands and giving kisses, kisses, kisses. “You ready to be a big . . .” Beth glanced at Z and then her husband. “. . . a big sister?”
Yes, Beth thought. Because that’s what the Brotherhood and their families were. Close as siblings, tighter than blood because they were chosen.
“Yes, she is,” Bella said as she wiped under her eyes and looked back at Z. “She is so ready.”
“My brother.” Z shoved out his palm, his scarred face in a half smile, his yellow eyes warm. “Congratulations.”
Instead of shaking anything, Wrath shoved that ultrasound picture into his Brother’s face. “Do you see him? See my son? He’s big, right, Beth?”
She kissed Nalla’s supersoft hair. “Yes.”
“Big and healthy, right?”
Beth laughed some more. “Big and healthy. Absolutely perfect.”
“Perfect!” Wrath bellowed. “And this is a doctor saying it—I mean, she went to medical school.”
Even Z started laughing at that point.
Beth gave Nalla back to her parents. “And Dr. Sam told me she’s delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career—”
“See!” Wrath yelled. “She knows these things. My son is perfect! Where’s the champagne? Fritz! Get the fucking champagne!”
Source: The King
“Abruptly the wind shifted, and his head snapped up. A scream pierced the air. It skittered across his skin and reverberated through his bones. He shivered. Suddenly, he felt as though a large hand was squeezing his stomach, tighter and tighter, making it impossible to breathe. Danger. Uncertainty. Fear...?
Sora!
That scream, that pitch, the direction it came from.... Crash found himself running across the ship, bounding toward the docks.
Sweet Goddess—no!”
“Abruptly, then, and very quickly, she went in the farthest and most anonymous-looking of the seven or eight enclosures-which, by luck, didn’t require a coin for entrance-closed the door behind her, and, with some little difficulty, manipulated the bolt to a locked position. Without any apparent regard to the suchness of her environment, she sat down. She brought her knees together very firmly, as if to make herself a smaller, more compact unit. Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black. Her extended fingers, though trembling or because they were trembling, looked oddly graceful and pretty. She held that tense, almost fetal position for a suspensory moment-then broke down. She cried for fully five minutes. She cried without trying to suppress any of the noisier manifestations of grief and confusion with all the convulsive throat sounds that a hysterical child makes when the breath is trying to get up through a partly closed epiglottis. And yet, when finally she stopped, she merely stopped without the painful, knifelike intakes of breath that usually follow a violent outburst-inburst. When she stopped, it was as though some momentous change of polarity had taken place inside her mind, one that had an immediate, pacifying effect on her body.”
“Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.”
“Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.”
“Abrázame como si fuera el objeto más frágil
que un toque de pluma pudiera romper.”
“Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era como si me hubiese tragado una y estuviese estridulando desde el interior de mi cuerpo. A la estridencia del sonido me acostumbraba enseguida, pero en cuanto advertía un cambio de ritmo y volvía mi atención sobre ellas sentía que su canto se adhería a mi piel y me asfixiaba.”
Source: The Hole
“Abría los ojos en la noche, sentía la turgencia en su barriga, el movimiento interno, y pensaba: mi cuerpo es una casa invadida por aliens.”
Source: Tiempo muerto
“Abs are for people with no friends.”
“Abschied und Wiedersehen
hat jedes doch sein Glück:
Geh tausendmal - und komm dann
zehntausendmal zurück!”
“Abschied war es, Herbst war es, Schicksal war es, wonach die Sommerrose so reif und voll geduftet hatte.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Absence - that common cure of love.”
“absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.”
“Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.”
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
“Absence becomes the greatest Presence.”
Source: Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New
“Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.”
“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
Source: Maxims
“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder-it makes it wander. It sends a clear message that the client is not important enough to command your time. More clients are lost to neglect than to any other cause.”
Source: The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.”
Source: Actress: Postcards from the Road
“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.”
Source: A Stone Boat: A Novel
“Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Absence makes the bloody penis wander. ~ Heartbreak's A Bitch!”
“Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder if there's nothing there to begin with.”
Source: Wait for It
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.”
Source: The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne
“Absence, hear thou my protestation
Against thy strength,
Distance and length:
Do what thou canst for alteration;
For hearts of truest mettle
Absence doth join, and time doth settle.”
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
“Absence is more,
thorny on the soul,
than however dulcet,
presence can be.
Apparently,
I have missed you,
more than,
I have ever loved you.”
“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.”
“Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.”
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“Absence is the preferable option when your presence has no meaning.”
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“Absence is to love what the wind is to fire. A brief absence stirs it like a gentle breeze, making the flames leap higher. But a long absence? That’s a storm. It smothers the fire until nothing remains.”
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
“Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It”
“absence
looks like a lake bed flooded with sky
sounds like cotton howling
tastes like tear-stained pillows
smells like churning bile and burnt hair
feels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying”
Source: Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.”