Quotes of: Left-field Keyword

Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.

Something Real

; grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.

The Silver Dark Sea

...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.

The Soldier's Dark Secret

Science, where would scientists be without it? They’d probably still be in my basement, where I left them a few minutes ago.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

After the leave-taking, there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.

The Storyteller's Tale

You meet someone who changes your world and when they leave you’re left as a stranger in the world. You don’t even know yourself. - Keaira

Stolen Time

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Seeker After Truth

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

She's Come Undone

That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.

Serpent's Walk

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

A Tale for the Time Being

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Take the Cannoli

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

The Truth About Forever

It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

Three

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

Outlander

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.

The Pieces We Keep

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

Pretties

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

The Path of Least Resistance

I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

A Place Like This