He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.
A loving heart finds joy in every moment. Nothing can resist its power for growth.
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
I’m forced to shower in the closet, because my friend is wearing all my clothes, and he’s in the bathtub at the moment. Ah, but that’s life, no?
And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.
His gaze lowered to her breasts, scalding her with the intensity of his stare. "At this moment, I'm exceedingly glad I'm no longer a monk.
At this moment, I am obscenely happy. Please don’t screw this up or dump me or cheat on me or divorce me.” “All right,” he said.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.
The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.
Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
I’m a virgin, okay?” There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. “I’m not prejudiced against anyone.
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.
