Quotes of: Once Keyword

I told you once I would never let you fall, Aesa ... And you're falling. You just don't see it.' 'No, you're wrong,' I snapped ...'I've already fallen. You just don't to see it.

Undertow

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Unless

Now we wake up with our memory and fix our gazes on that which was; whispering sweetness, which once coursed through us, sits silently beside us with loosened hair

Uncollected Poems

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

A Vintage Affair

...underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath that, something else: once an asswipe, always an asswipe.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economics and perfectly all right

Witches Abroad

He put his sister's card in his pocket. He left home for a strange new life and carried her love with him, as he had once before.

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret. The god of money was also the god of spies.

The Winner's Crime

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

The Winter of Our Discontent

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

The Winter Ghosts

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

What Happened to Goodbye

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Wintersmith

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore....

Witch Week

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.

The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

I once saw a baby make a boom-boom in his diaper, and I thought, I didn’t know infants could be terrorists. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I once placed third in the Battle of the Fourth Places. There were only two other competitors, so I felt proud. My grandma and grandpa beat me, despite having been dead over five years.

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