Quotes of: Brief-moment Keyword

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Dream Chaser

I sacrificed for only you. I loved you from that moment I felt you flutter in my womb.

The Dark, Dark House

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace.

Devotion: A Memoir

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Diary of a Pilgrimage

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

The Dream of Scipio

If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.

Dreams of the Sleepless

Just this once,’ he says almost more to himself than to me. ‘Just one moment.’ Then he leans down and kisses me.

End of Days

Why do you fight it?" I whisper. "Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

Emerald Eyes

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

The Elite

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

The Essentials of Life

While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

Eight Girls Taking Pictures

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Everwild

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

Everlost

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

The Eternal War

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

Eyes on You

It was as if the blinders to his vision had been lifted and he wanted to make up for every moment the two of them had missed.

Finding Eden

The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.

First Frost

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Fathoms of Forgiveness