Quotes of: Long-gone Keyword

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

The Gone-Away World

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

The Gone-Away World

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.

Bag of Bones

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

British Bulldog

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

The Blood of Olympus

In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.

Broken Pieces

Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that’s left is a shell". HS/el

Back to Single

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

Beth Ditto

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

Frank Abagnale

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens be...

Tatiana Maslany

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

Florence Welch

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete ...

Jerry Saltz

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

The Hiding Place

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.

The Intended

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

The Infernals

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Insurgent

So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.

The Indigo Spell