N Quotes
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“Now he understands – he never did before, never even considered it – that any writer who goes public with his work is courting danger. It’s part of the allure. Look at me. I’m showing you what I am. My clothes are off. I’m exposing myself.”
Source: Billy Summers
“Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.”
Source: The untold tale
“Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.”
Source: Wolfskin
“Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.”
Source: Lake Success
“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”
Source: The Yearling
“Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn't know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found what he wanted.”
Source: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“Now he was kissing the shell of her ear, nipping at it gently and then soothing the nips with soft kisses.
“You have no idea what you’re about to unleash if you continue.”
He chuckled low once again, but said nothing as he bit the nape of her neck and gently licked it with his tongue.
“You play with fire, sir.”
“Let it burn, Julia. Let me be your King of Wands.”
Source: King of Wands
“Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.”
“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“Now, he was truly alone.”
Source: Vermin
“Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar’s death would not bring back his father, Elk’s Call at Dawn, or his mother, Whisper of the Night Wind. His brother, Hand of the Sun, and his little sister Miliana would remain dead. The only time he would hear the voice of his grandfather, Laughter in His Eyes, would be in his memory. Nothing would change. No farmer outside Krondor would suddenly stand up in wonder and say, “A wrong has been righted.” No boot-maker in Roldem would look up from his bench and say, “A people has been avenged.”
Source: King of Foxes
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
Source: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide
“Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.”
“Now he's miserable and depressed.”
“Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient of Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken -- He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“Now hear me. Before the end,
you will pluck snowdrops at
midwinter, die by your own
choosing, and weep for a
nightingale.”
Source: The Bear and the Nightingale
“Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.”
“Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.”
“Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.”
Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja
“Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other.”
Source: Naming the Bones
“Now, here he was in the dorm room of an underground lab, letting some wacko scientist inject him with what one of the other volunteers referred to as a pipe dream. Was it or was it something more?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-crust English spy, an openly promiscuous and functionally alcoholic heterosexual with an on-and-off-again messiah complex. It was the shoes, the way they were tied.”
Source: Dr. No
“Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.”
“Now here I go again/I see the crystal visions. I keep my visions to myself.”
“Now, here I lie, on this cold, sterile bed,
Staring at the ceiling, wishing I were dead.
Counting the hours, till peace comes to me,
Longing for an end, from this misery.”
Source: 18 Stitches Of Love
“Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.”
“Now here is an interesting thing about my life journey. Choosing a partner for me has certainly been an evolving process, at first it was about finding a 'good' woman, and the most appropriate "market" for sourcing out such kind of a woman, at first I thought, was the church. And coming from a strong church background myself, that was easy, however, it was not as wow or soul-stimulating as I expected it to be. To be quite honest, it was a very soul-starving experience. And I'm not putting the blame on anyone here. I probably needed that to figure out what or who it was that my soul was truly meant for.
The thing about a lot of 'good' women is that they are almost always pro religion/morality but not necessarily pro DEPTH/GROWTH, and that can become a very frustrating thing for someone like me who enjoys growing, living his life full out and out of the box.”
“Now, here is another paradox: the internet made everyone a publisher, but not everyone is a JK Rowling.”
Source: Clickonomics: How to Win Customers and Influence People on the Internet
“Now here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with one 's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Now here is the fascinating thing, it is actually your own race! And just as a horse in a race, you do not look over to see what the next horse is doing. You are focused and you run your own race. That is how to create NAPS, create it for you and listen to yourself express those words with meaning and conviction.”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“Now here's a thought to consider. Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked further than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days--that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls--adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day, That's ridiculous.”
Source: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“Now here's Amy Pond, standing in the freezing ocean, holding the body of her imaginary friend, and shouting at the sea to make him better.
Yeah. If only my therapists could see me now.”
Source: Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“Now here's how to be
dangerous, but not a danger
you find your fucking heart - and
stop hiding from your pain. You
place your hand on your chest
and you leave it there for the rest
of your life. You never forget your
capacity to feel, to love, and to be
loved.”
“Now here they were. She couldn’t exactly say if Savannah had caught them on an upswing or a downswing, or if they’d finally found an equilibrium that would last them until death did them part. Sometimes it felt like their relationship ebbed and flowed over a day, or even a conversation. She could feel affection followed by resentment in the space of ten minutes.”
Source: Apples Never Fall
“Now, here we lie, flesh on flesh, hearts on hearts, souls on souls. It’s the most intimate I’ve ever been with a man in my life.”
“Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat ... drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost ...
[Dreams]”
Source: Rumours
“Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.”
“Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”
Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series
“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.”
“Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.”
“Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Now hit the showers. Take your time. Come up with other reasons your a terrible person and I'll shoot those arguments down when you get back.”
Source: Robin (1993-2009) #123 (Robin
“Now hitting on all sixteen cylinders, the Beatles bolted back to the woodshed for The Beatles, a blandly designed masterwork that could inspire any reasonable California citizen to launch a race war.”
Source: Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
“Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.”
“Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
Look not to left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There's nothing but the night.”
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.”
“Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.”
“Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.”
“Now, how are you getting back to the motel?”
He looked like he was going to argue some more, shifting slowly in the gurney to a more upright position but something pulled him up short and he winced. “I’ll catch a cab.”
“And is there someone who can keep an eye on you?” He’d been pretty wiped out from the morphine. She’d be more comfortable discharging him if she was doing it to someone’s care.
“Are you kidding? The rodeo’s over. The motel will be full of yahooing bull riders.”
“I mean someone who’ll actually look in on you, not be drunk off their ass while you throw up in your sleep and choke on your own vomit.”
He cocked an eyebrow at her. “I bet you’re fun at parties.”
Parties? Ha! She should be so lucky. “I’m a real treat.”
Source: Troy