Quotes of: Almost Keyword

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Shirley

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

My Reading Life

There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.

The Midnight Mayor

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

Mink River

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch.” “It was I who caught her,” Adam said softly. “It took years.

Night Broken

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

A Northern Light

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

One Man Caravan

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Lord of Chaos

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

Letters to a Young Poet

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Let the Great World Spin

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The Lost Symbol

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

Love the One You're With

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here." No, she thought. Only heart thieves.

Master of Crows

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

She tried to kill me. The problem is she did it slowly, almost invisibly, so the whole murder would take about 50 years. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

It’s almost as if we don’t need to live our lives or feel our feelings at all, because someone already told us what the ending was going to be.

Starcrossed