Quotes of: Long-experience Keyword

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Anna Karenina

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.

Rapture

- I'll be better tomorrow. - No you won't. But that's okay...I'll wait. - For how long? - How long will I wait? Take forever and multiply it by infinity. And then I'll wait some more.

The Space in Between

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

So Long a Letter

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Matched

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.

Matched

And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

A Long Way Down

We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.

A Long Night's Journey Into Daylight

No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.

A Long Way Down

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

A Long Way Down

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.

The Long Goodbye

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

The Long Goodbye

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

Living Dead Girl

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

The Long Goodbye

Death was painful, not because people couldn't see their loved ones anymore, but because they couldn't communicate with them anymore.

The Long Way Home

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Lay Morals