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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Inkdeath

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

A Scanner Darkly

I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.

Saving June

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

I handed him a beaker and toyed with the pleats of my skirt. The folds kept rippling against my knees in a distracting way. It was one of Naomi's additions to my wardrobe. I quickly decided that I hated it.

Nightshade

It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.

Naked and Sexual

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

Night of the Soul Stealer

a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Les Essais

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and of the un...

Slowness

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over to someone physically without truly knowing the person to whom they are entrusting with their body and emotions

Taking Back Forever

Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—

Twice as Hot

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

Odd Thomas

I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn’t look like the kind of woman she is.

The Pleasure Express

...if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

The Prince

Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality’s vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.

A Poison Tree