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“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”

Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

“When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.”

People Thinking Firsts Seems Age Certain Deals First Time Bigger Things In Life

Author:Conor Oberst

“From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.”

People Thinking Firsts Said Bigs Fame First Time Explosions

Author:John C. Reilly

“In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.”

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Author:Robert Smith

“I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Song Pay Attention First Time Melody

Author:George Strait

“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.”

Thinking Years Firsts Country Wanted Artist Song Parent Singing First Time Fairs Contests Festivals Chicks Cds Nashville Demos Karaoke Dixie Dixie Chicks

Author:Taylor Swift

“When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.”

Thinking Want Firsts I Can Whole Hate Song Heard Fronts First Time I Hate Fruit Radio Smell Seats Guts Riding Hate You Tangled Lucy Juicy

Author:Lynda Barry

“It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”

Thinking Firsts Children Has Beens Made Pain Bits Boys Love You First Time Treated Staring Affected Peter Fairness Unfair Helpless Get Over Hook You Again Unfairness Dazed Treated Unfairly

Author:James M. Barrie

“I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Watches Alive First Time Noticing I'm Alive New You

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”

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Author:Susanna Kaysen

“It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Wells Littles Helping Stories Happens Bits Magic Heard Love You Little Bit First Time Spite Only Love

Author:Katherine Hannigan

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Wells Real Together Past Lying Night Stars Felt Sides Walks Morning Sky Arms First Time Tired Breathe Disappear Shoulders Parks Necks Lit Patches Tourists Lying Down

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Book Moments Facts Reading Left Deals Imagine Months Picks First Time Let Me Prison Library Inevitable New World Wedges Bunk

Author:Alex Haley

“I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Looks Mean Feelings Happens Felt Nice Hair First Time Weight Mirrors Muscles Do You Know Nice Feeling Good Hair

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Said Done Voice First Time Harder Gods Will Happy People Resigned Squires

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.”

Thinking Firsts Support First Time Yards Rope Hammocks

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”

Thinking Firsts Real Loss Limits First Time Boundaries Innocence Glimpse Loss Of Innocence

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Shows Care Values Fall Lost Enjoy Virtue First Time Prize My Sister Being There Racks

Author:Gary D. Schmidt

“Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.”

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Author:Michele Jaffe

“Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)”

Thinking Knows Want Firsts Sometimes Able Past Moving Realizing Mistake Knowing First Time Repeats Thinking Of Someone

Book:Dream Chaser

Source: Dream Chaser

“Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.”

Thinking Men World Years Firsts Long Two Book Lasts Past Used Night Behinds Minutes Ten Paper Long Time First Time Lifetime I Realized Last Night World And Life

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.”

Thinking Firsts Existence Survival First Time Drowning

Book:Water Bound

Source: Water Bound

“But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the rest of my life. And it still is. It's still my favorite song... Lincoln, I said you were cute because I didn't know how to say--because I didn't think I was allowed to say--anything else. But every time I saw you, I felt like I did the first time I heard that song.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Said Stills Whole Song Felt Know How Saws Heard First Time My Favorite Video Cute Say Anything Favorite Song

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.”

Thinking Firsts Feelings Remember Sea First Time Senses Loud Pulse Exploding

Book:Sing You Home: A Novel

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Dream Remember One Day First Time Caught Claire One Day At A Time

Author:Sarah Addison Allen

“Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.”

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Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.”

Thinking Firsts Long Past Lost Loses Long Time First Time

Author:Jennifer Donnelly

“I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.”

Thinking World Needs Should Years Firsts Said Stills I Can Walks Happened Crazy Like You Ten Office First Time Should Have Need You Amazing Things Most Amazing

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either.”

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Author:Jeaniene Frost

“That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.”

Thinking Firsts Mean Girl Found Lost Saws Couple First Time Bones Bags Lost Girl

Author:Bill Condon

“Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.”

Thinking Firsts Remember Fate Mets First Time Hey First Time We Met

Author:Ai Yazawa

“I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.”

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Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Heart Feelings Felt Space Rooms Secret Happened Baby My Heart First Time Empty Staring Without You

Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel

“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Done Together Normal First Time

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”

Thinking Knows Want Firsts Wells Said Dream Eye Father First Time Blind Glasses Boat Do You Know Bats Gorgeous

Book:A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.”

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Book:Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen

Source: Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen

“You know something?" He lifted his head, and when he turned to me, he had this strange look in his eyes. Almost as if he was really seeing me for the first time. "I don't think I ever really lived until this. I've never done anything that mattered before, but now I'm fighting to save my life, and yours. And I know it sounds really cheesy and lame, but I don't think I ever really felt alive. Not until I met you.”

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Author:Amanda Hocking

“I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will be, and that’s all that counts. It’ll be that way always. Even years from now, when you’re old and withered, I’ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That’s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don’t exist. If you see them at all, you think they’re beautiful.”

“I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.”

Thinking Firsts Wanted Hurt Talking First Time Scary

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

“Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?”

Thinking Knows Feels Firsts Done Shows Happens Care Mother Waiting Know How First Time

Book:Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now