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“Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?”

Knows Way Firsts Said Eye Together Names Voice Dangerous First Time Blue Fingers Staring Knees His Eyes Do You Know Adam Threatening Twisted Elbows Helen Gansey

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.”

World Firsts Wells Matter Feelings Hands Happens Song Girl Voice Taken Changed Drug Band My Friends First Time My Family Wheels Getting High My Girl Sirens Steering Siren Song

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.”

Knows Men Should Firsts Ends Fall Wonder Know How Tree Rocks First Time Falling In Love Clouds I Realized Miserable Do You Know Climax

Book:The Ballad of the Sad Café

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café

“And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.”

Firsts Believe Said Wanted Purpose First Time Madness Species Possessed Heroism Tanks Disbelief Begets Hippopotamus

Book:Seeds of Rebellion

Source: Seeds of Rebellion

“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.”

Firsts Mean War Eye Reading Differences Battle First Time Chapters Preparing Veteran Revive Sap Will To Live War Veteran Defibrillators

Author:Kevin Hearne

“I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.”

Mind Firsts Mean Said War Steps Alive First Time China Block Aliens Hopeless Rome Fountain Mexican Bff Mexican Food

Author:Rick Riordan

“Well, everybody needs help feeling alive again every once in a while.” “No,” she says seriously, and my gaze falls back on hers, “I didn’t say again, Andrew; for making me feel alive for the first time.”

Needs Feels Firsts Wells Helping Feelings Fall Alive First Time Fall Back Andrew

Author:J.A. Redmerski

“and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”

Firsts Believe Ends Wanted First Time Believe In Me

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever”

“Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.”

Firsts Four First Time Brave Hardest Be Brave Tris

Author:Veronica Roth

“I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.”

Source: If I Stay

“Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Looks First Time Cooks Poetry Is Pot Efficient Lobster Oddities

Book:The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

“Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.”

Firsts Said War Summer First Time Yeah Winter Decades Knights

Author:Jim Butcher

“That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.”

Thinking Firsts May Boys Weapons First Time Monsters Silly Our Family Grandmother Sarcasm Frank Attics Silly Boy

Author:Rick Riordan

“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.”

Source: You learn by living

“For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.”

Want Firsts Important Desire Objects First Time Fulfilling

Author:Abbi Glines

“She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.”

Firsts Littles Past Given Boys First Time Faults Insecure Given Up Little Boys

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.”

“For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”

Ifs Knows Feels Years Firsts Matter Whole Fighting First Time Sorry Refuse Floats Seventeen Things That Matter Carols Seventeen Years Old

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”

Firsts Ends Might Lying Realizing Disease First Time

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.”

Knows World Years Firsts Stills Country Saws First Time Years Ago Program Snow Around The World Carter Close Friends Skis Skiing

Author:Jimmy Carter

“This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.”

Firsts Strange Involved Terrible First Time Goodbye Saying Goodbye Close To Death

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious.... Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.”

Thinking Needs Firsts I Can Hands Running Faces Fall Next Sides Blood Cry Arms First Time Teeth Unconscious Als Cheeks Christina

Author:Veronica Roth

“At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.”

“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Helping Today Three Existence Terrible First Time Ruined Admitting Presence Of God

Book:Help: The First Essential Prayer

Source: Help: The First Essential Prayer

“You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?”

Years Firsts Looks Different Whole Choices Fall Wish Ability Secret Changed First Time Seeking Awful Granted Fall Back Different Choices

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.”

Ifs Firsts Said Faces White Saws Promise First Time Debauchery Connoisseur

Author:Angela Carter

“[...] I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. It was alien to me and I to it.”

World Firsts Made Ends Dies Felt First Time Aliens Urges Disgusting Hostile

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.”

Firsts Eye Steps Gone Saws Acceptance Mines Mets First Time Silent Hated Prize My Best Friend Envied Pleading Sawyer

Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Universe Stars Felt Dark Sky Ready My Heart First Time Clean Indifference Gazing Benign Brotherly Dark Sky

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.”

Firsts Long Hurt Comfort Long Time First Time Down And Packs Appreciated

Book:Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.”

Ifs World Firsts Beautiful Path Seeing Sky Strange Mountain First Time Rivers Blue Green Awakening Forests Mysterious Midst Yellow Colorful Seeing The World Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.”

Firsts Littles Said Remember Girl Fighting Saws Seeing Sea Hair Months Goes On Couple Bed First Time Bus Showers Remember When My Girl Panties

Book:This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted.”

Firsts Eye Wanted Waiting Dark Known First Time Bottom Fades Stairs Speechless Dark Eyes

Book:Outpost

Source: Outpost

“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it." "And now you do?" "And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

Knows Firsts Said Enough Feelings Gone Love You First Time Good Enough

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.”

Way Firsts Universe Love You Kissing First Time Hooked Across The Universe Way I Love You Addicted To You

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“The first time I saw you, when you stepped into that Skiz ring against Kaede, I thought you were the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. I could've watched you forever. The first time I kiss you..." That memory overpowers me now, taking me by surprise. I remember every last detail of it, almost enough to push away the lingering images of the Elector pulling June to him. "Well, that might as well have been my first kiss ever.”

“The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.”

Firsts Together Saws First Time First Time I Saw You

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.”

Years Firsts Watches Gone Saws Hair Bird First Time Borders Shakes Flash Governors Jumping Yelling Ponytails First Time I Saw You

Author:Lauren Oliver

“He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.”

Ifs Men Way Want Should Firsts Has Beens Made Said Facts Pain Moving Wonder Steps Kings First Time Should Have Soldier Denied Panic Deceiving Ignored Palaces Every Step Stoic

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.”

Men Want Firsts Made Pain Wonder First Time Stoic

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.”

Ifs Years Firsts Father Wonder First Time

Author:Ally Carter

“Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared. “Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.” “I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.”

Knows Should Firsts Said Hands Beautiful Steps Sweet Mets Smart First Time Should Have Who You Are Brave Lists Fighter Adjectives Talkers First Time We Met

Book:The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

“At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.”

Ifs Firsts Moments Facts Running Found Felt Four Happened Blood Wind Happenings Understood First Time Good Things Sorry Very Good Warm Hungry That Moment Robins

Book:The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”

World Way Firsts Art First Time Poetry Is

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I took up physically. The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here. This body barely belonged to me or to Melanie-it belonged to him.”

Firsts Littles Body Eye Felt Half Happened First Time Hunger Corners Desperate Smallest Melting

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Within a few short hours, he nearly had me agreeing to try deer jerky for the first time. Almost. If it weren't for Cam continuously whispering "Bambi" in my ear every couple of minutes, I would've caved.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Hours Minutes Couple First Time Ears Whispering Deer

Book:The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay

Source: The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay

“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.”

Writing Firsts Looks First Time Versions Retrospect

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?” “If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Moments Faces Mets First Time Filled Relieved Filled Up

Book:Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)

Source: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)

“When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?”

Firsts Mean War Alive First Time Leo Valdez Bff Hazel Levesque

Author:Rick Riordan

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