Before Quotes (page 56)

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• forward
• thoughts
• hand

He'd find out, he thought and nodded as he rose. " Are you worried about you? " It surprised her, the gentleness in his voice, the light brush of his knuckles over her jaw. She could lean against him, she realized with a jolt. She could lay her head on that shoulder, close her eyes, and for a moment at least, everything would be all right. She nearly stepped forward before she decided it would be foolish. " You're not going to be nice to me, are you? " " Maybe. " It might have... Nora Roberts

• morning
• monday
• monday morning

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning! C. S. Lewis

• leaving
• world
• forever

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce Ludwig van Beethoven

• night
• today
• bed

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? Don Marquis

• love
• moving
• world

The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe. Edward Walker

• dream
• may
• die

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• thinking
• real
• true

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. Haruki Murakami

• words
• life
• lies

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• thoughts
• look
• thinking

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. Frances Hodgson Burnett

• beautiful
• beer
• beauty

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language. Philip K. Dick

• humanity
• nature
• bible

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but the curse still lies heavy on the human race....because our moral nature is such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. p 590 Leo Tolstoy

• sleep
• wonder
• wonderful

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has! C. S. Lewis

• tea
• thanks
• thankful

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith

• management
• affairs
• mess

Manage affairs before they are in a mess. Lao Tzu

• soul
• saying
• mother

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born. F. Scott Fitzgerald