Quotes of: Been Keyword

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

...humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

The Humans

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

Horns

Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.

If He Had Been with Me

I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after.

If He Had Been with Me

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Invisible Man

But maybe she’d always been this fucking adorable and I’d just been the jackass who never bothered to notice.

Kill Devil Hills

For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full of memories. And I had broken all of them.

Kat, Incorrigible

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

Sacred

Miss Kane, I have been worried. Sorry, I've been in a faery closet and a werewolf dungeon. Business or pleasure? Business.

Shadows & Dreams

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

Since You've Been Gone

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

Since You've Been Gone

Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.

Katya's World

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

The Last Song

Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

Switched

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.

Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

there have been mornings so quiet and tender like a poem, on Thursday's lips that I wondered if I'd been kissed at all...

Turquoise Silence

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath