It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving Broad River Review
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Quote:- It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it. (p. 281)
The Midnight Library
Author:- Matt Haig
Category:- hope
Quote:- It was intimate . . . a strange and beautiful feeling. We were breathing life into each other.
Love and Other Sins
Author:- Emilia Ares
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It was just one of those chance meetings, but after the meeting he just kinda stuck with me, you know?
On the Edge
Author:- T.S. Krupa
Category:- Love
Quote:- It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that the meaning of the poem is provided to keep the mind busy while the poem gets on with its work -- like the bone thrown to the dog by the robber so he can get on with his work. . . . Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely glimpsed bright face behind/ the apparency of things'? Here, I suppose, we ought to try the impossible task of defining poetry. No one definition will do. But I must admit to a liking for the words of Thomas Fuller, who said: 'Poetry is a dangerous honey. I advise thee only to taste it with the Tip of thy finger and not to live upon it. If thou do'st, it will disorder thy Head and give thee dangerous Vertigos.
The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction
Author:- P.K. Page
Category:- poetry
Quote:- It was like I really was invisible or something and no one could see me. No, actually it was more like I was this human mirror walking down the road and all people could see when they looked in my direction with some reflection of themselves looking back because the main effect was no one saw me myself, the kid, Chappie, Bone even, no one saw me except as a way to satisfy their desires or meet their needs, the nature of which sometimes they didn’t even know about until I showed up on the scene…
Rule of the Bone
Author:- Russell Banks
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it seemed to me, as I listened to the gravity and seriousness wherewith Science affirmed its positions on matters unconnected with the problem of life, that I must have misunderstood something. For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them.
A Confession
Author:- Leo Tolstoy
Category:- science
Quote:- It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
Author:- Samuel Beckett
Category:- time
Quote:- It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea;But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me-Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in heaven above,Nor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea." "It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea;But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;So that her highborn kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me-Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in heaven above,Nor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee.For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Author:- Edgar Allan Poe
Category:- poetry
Quote:- It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.
On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It was more than love...it was a feeling of comfort...of home.
On the Edge
Author:- T.S. Krupa
Category:- Love
Quote:- It was my first time going out in two hundred years. I walked along slowly.
Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 1
Author:- Ameko Kaeruda
Category:- time
Quote:- It was my grandfather sense of defiance that ensured his descendants believed in their own abilities and talents
Author:- Basetsana Kumalo
Category:- hope
Quote:- It was natural given such clear teachings that I readily took the blame for the disastrous situation in which I found myself. My understanding of my religion offered me little solace. Indeed, by encouraging self-blame, it deprived me of a sense of justice...of being the injured one.
Forced to Grow
Author:- Sindiwe Magona
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.
Author:- robert m drake
Category:- Relationships,best,poetry,hope
Quote:- It was never the way she lookedalways the way she wasI would have fallen in love with her with my eyes closed.
Love Her Wild
Author:- Atticus Poetry
Category:- best,poetry
Quote:- It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Author:- Gabrielle Zevin
Category:- Love
Quote:- It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.
Casa Rossa
Author:- Francesca Marciano
Category:- time