Afterglow Quotes

#1. For a wondrous golden second, they basked in the afterglow, not caring that it was four in the afternoon and they were naked in front of the windows. "I missed you," Ellie whispered right against his ear. "Don't ever think that I wasn't missing you like crazy all that time.

Lauren Gilley

#2. Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter.

Ellyn Bache

#3. As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores.

Larry McMurtry

#4. My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where none existed.

Kate Morton

#5. If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

Martin Seligman

#6. Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

L.M. Montgomery

#7. A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Wallis Simpson

#8. Most women prefer lovemaking with romance, appreciation, respect, and caring with plenty of foreplay, satisfaction, and afterglow.

J.F. Kelly

#9. Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Bob Graham

#11. Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

#12. So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

Gill Robb Wilson

#13. Occasionally he will catch the whispers of this abandoned voice, in the afterglow of certain dreams with that lingering sense of a paradise lost, reminding him of another kind of life, the life he was always meant to live, but for whatever reason, he did not.1

Michael Goorjian

#14. Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

#15. We wanted to enjoy the afterglow and we were trying our best to bond, but it was difficult with so many people between us, even though most of them were ghosts.

Jennifer Echols

#16. Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. We were merely observers, getting totally absorbed in some exciting movie, our palms all sweaty, only to find that, after the houselights came on and we exited the theater, the thrilling afterglow that coursed through us ultimately meant nothing whatsoever.

Haruki Murakami

#18. and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.

Sanober Khan

#19. I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

Jennifer Crusie

#20. The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Stephen King

#21. The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.

Eleanor Brown

#22. she already knew this would be one of her most revisited memories, one she'd want to examine from all angles and one whose afterglow she'd want to enjoy for a long time to come. They

M.A. Larson

#23. When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Austin O'Malley

#24. But ... we'll always have Paris." I pause, thinking this through. "At least, you'll have it. And you can tell me about it.

Sophie Kinsella

#25. If you don't work hard today, you will work hard to find a work tomorrow.

Aiza Olsen

#26. I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#27. Bisexual people are the primary conduits for the cultural conversation that America is having about gay rights.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#28. A guy is on the radio talking about the war.
Speculating.
Speculating.
Speculating.
He says in less than two hours, we shall fight to preserve freedom.
Freedom.
America wants to give another country freedom.
That doesn't sound that bad, or does it.

Noah Cicero

#29. There's more to honesty than ... than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can't lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor -

Cassandra Clare

#30. Stud," D repeated, growly and low. Jack snorted. "You got a better word for a guy who's swept my chimney five times in one night?

Jane Seville

#31. He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn't shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.

Sara Sheridan

#32. You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. Who was this person who could hack a man to pieces one day and save a kitten the next?

Beth Flynn

#34. I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Holly Black