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“I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

Firsts First Time Importance Earnest Realised Importance Of Being Earnest Ideal Husband

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.”

Knows Firsts Moments Certain Memories One Thing Return First Time Hearing

Author:Colum McCann

“Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.”

Ifs Way Firsts Said Ends Hard Names First Time Breaths Hearing Caress William Herondale

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms”

Firsts Children Mother Fall Air Blood Rocks First Time Garden Refuse Milk Rainbow Mist Scorpions Dragonflies

Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts May Art Reason Might Eye Mouths First Time Related Museums Elderly Profane Profanity Vernacular

Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.”

Needs Firsts Next Pieces Cutting Worst Hair First Time Dresses Lips Dry Knives Plastic Restraint Next Day Torn Kill Me

Book:Persistence of Memory

Source: Persistence of Memory

“From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace”

Ifs Want Firsts Stills Saws First Time Instruments Want Me Jace You Want Me Shadowhunters City Of Glass If You Want Me First Time I Saw You

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.”

Knows Firsts Wells Littles Said Reason Remember Hate Stuff Sound Voice Magic Blood First Time Arguing Campaigns Hated Sand Throat Congratulations Heartbeat Gears Perfectly Good

Book:Storm Glass

Source: Storm Glass

“Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.”

Firsts Made Said Stills Enough Hands Wanted Remember Doors Kissing First Time Mad Lips Breathing Touched Elevators Eve Dallas

Author:Nora Roberts

“"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."”

Firsts Long Said Long Time First Time Okay

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.”

People Want Needs Firsts Stars Company Millions Sky Shots First Time Fingers Billions Schedules Appointments Live Simply

Author:Holly Black

“I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.”

Firsts Enjoy First Time Golf Yesterday Worried Inspirational Golf

Author:Ewan McGregor

“When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.”

Way Feels Firsts Kind Made Wish Seeing Sitting First Time Wish You Stood Up Shiver

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.”

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.”

Firsts Book Home Felt Waiting Saws Doors Like You Sitting First Time Welcome I Liked You First Time I Saw You

Author:Josh Lanyon

“You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.”

Firsts Suffering Felt Kissing First Time Not Alone Complicity Uncomplicated

Book:How to Paint a Dead Man

Source: How to Paint a Dead Man

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”

Firsts Looks Has Beens Book School Degrees First Time Oneself Homeland Birthplace Hadrian

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.”

Firsts Romance First Time Intimacy

Book:The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.”

“If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.”

Ifs Firsts Said Today Asks Mets First Time Valentine

Book:Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet

Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet

“You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.”

Firsts Hard First Time Awful Luther

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.”

Firsts Said Stories Months First Time Laughed

Author:Megan Hart

“For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?”

Firsts Wells Body Brother Needed First Time Silent Valentine Decency Jeremiah

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.”

Way Firsts Littles Made Done Hands Felt Behinds Son First Time Letters Moved Incredibles Wave Warm Proof Treasure Staring Friendly Veils Ink Potters Lilies Handwriting Tracing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.”

Firsts Home Stage Months Six First Time Six Months

Author:Alan Alda

“I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.”

Thinking Should Trying Firsts Happens Fall Poor Ought Clothes First Time Let Me Towns Breaths Dresses Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath New Clothes

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her.”

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.”

Knows Firsts Life Is Night Sweet Discovery First Time Hot Winter Buttons Potatoes Peeling Sweet Potatoes

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Wendy warmed my heart, earned my trust, touched my soul, and then touched me in a lot of other places. And right after we'd slept together for the very first time she looked up at me with her chocolate-brown, trustworthy doe eyes and said, "I've got herpes. I thought you should know.”

Knows Should Firsts Heart Doe Said Soul Eye Together My Heart First Time My Soul Brown Touched Chocolate Trustworthy Wendy Herpes

Author:Caprice Crane

“Jace: "I guess we better move the trash. We can start with the Dumpster," looking unenthusiastic. Clary: "You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?" Jace: "At least they wouldn't be crawling with maggots. Well, not most of them, anyway. There was this one demon, once, that I tracked down to the sewers under Grand Central--" Clary: "Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now." Jace: "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me." Clary: "Stick with me and it won't be the last.”

Firsts Wells Said Lasts Faces Moving Girl Right Now First Time Sticks Mood Demon Jace Trash Crawling Horde Sewers Maggots Dumpsters

Author:Cassandra Clare

“He lifted the arm covering his eyes and turned his head to glare at her. "I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you." "What do you mean, trouble?" She sat up, glaring back at him. "I am not trouble! I'm a very nice person except when I have to deal with jerks!" "You're the worst kind of trouble," he snapped. "You're marrying trouble."”

Firsts Kind Mean Persons Eye Deals Saws Nice Trouble Worst Arms First Time Sat His Eyes Covering Very Nice Jerk Marrying Glare Nice Person First Time I Saw You

Author:Linda Howard

“Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.”

Years Firsts Joy Found Felt Responsibility Known Saws First Time Sorry Trials Spite Togetherness Soothing Unyielding

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.”

Thinking Men Want Firsts Believe Two Eye Running Fun I Believe First Time I Believe In Stomach Flirting Cocktails Fling Shiver Had Fun I Had Fun

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.”

Ifs Firsts Long Two Guy Fighting Goes On Weapons First Time Thirds Finals Shoes Clubs Welcome Shirts Fourth Fifth Knuckles Fellas Two Guys

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”

World Way Firsts Moments Happens Moving Our Lives Magic Terrible First Time Harder Awful Unexpected That Moment Coping World Life

Book:Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)

Source: Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)

“I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt like crying. We could not look at each other. It always had to be from behind. Like that first time. And I knew he wasn't thinking of me. He squeezed my sides so hard, and pushed so hard. Like he was trying to push me through to somewhere else. Why does anyone ever make love?”

Thinking Trying Firsts Looks Doe Made Hard Done Light Felt Sides Behinds Cry First Time Sickness Making Love Somewhere Else

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.”

Giving Firsts Wells Heart Hard Enough Eye Turns Fall Girl Pieces Months First Time Falling In Love Fallen Cracks Ceramics

Book:The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid

“I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere”

Firsts Feelings Remember Three Middle Walking First Time Seasons Remembered One Time

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?”

“She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?”

Way Firsts Said Desire Night Grief Emotion Heard Expression Regret Kissing First Time Longing Storm Setting Boat Settings Remembered Sand Awkward Bye Good Bye Docks Conflicting Emotions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.”

Thinking Firsts First Time Immoral Always Wrong

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.”

Firsts Hands Eye Hurt Silence Worry Sun Forever Tears First Time Storm Sunset Gray Daring Tenderness Wounded Her Eyes Stunned Archangel Sun Kissed

Book:Archangel's Consort

Source: Archangel's Consort

“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”

“Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.”

Firsts Mean Said War Hard Faces Names Lines Cry Mets First Time Call Me Princess Inappropriate Helen Attolia First Time We Met

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.”

Knows Want Firsts Light Moving Dark Rooms First Time Radio Blast Living Room Popular Music

Book:Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.”

“But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.”

Want Needs Firsts Made Moments Lying Sin Decision Known First Time Adam Making Love Sanctions Transgression Katie Wants And Needs

Book:Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.”

Firsts Said Earth Mother Father Sex Forget First Time Moved Fingers Never Forget Lunch Doughnut Time With You

Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

“Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.”

Men Firsts Light Found Easy Dark Feet First Time Legs Chests Looking Ahead

Book:A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings