Quotes of: Long-period Keyword

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

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

I heard word Of bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland. Then I smelled A smell remembered: Salt of spray And black-pitched boat's keel.

The Long Ships

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

The Long Walk