Top 100 Was Here Quotes
#1. She realized that home wasn't a place. It was here, safe in his arms. As long as she had this, everything would be all right.
Amber Argyle
#2. I was very aware that the army was here to kill something hiding out (and I think the other black folks felt this as well) not only on the mountain, but inside my heart as well.
Terry Bisson
#3. She wasn't going to back down. She knew that. She communicated that. She was here until the death.
C.D. Bell
#4. Eddie who breaks the silence. "How much do you think It knows about what we're doing now? " he asks. "It was here, wasn't It? " Ben says.
Stephen King
#5. She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of salt on her skin - she was, he thought, born to rest in the shelter of his arms. And he was born to hold her.
-Benedict's thoughts
Julia Quinn
#6. It was here one brilliant November midnight that Edward wrote a formal letter to Violet and Geoffrey Ponting declaring his ambition to marry their daughter, and did not quite ask their permission so much as confidently expected their approval.
Ian McEwan
#7. How did you know I was here in town?"
"The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have my sources."
"Right", He nodded, evidently satisfied and picked up his sandwich. "your mother phoned and told you I was on my way here to Cadence.
Jayne Castle
#8. I'm sorry I kissed you."
"Don't apologize!"
"All right. Sorry."
"You don't get all the blame. I was here too, you know. Do you think I just run around kissing any boy who drags me into a toolshed?"
"No." Oliver's mouth twitches. "Do you have a lot of boys dragging you into toolsheds?
Lindsey Leavitt
#9. He left bloody fingerprints on the rock, but there was something satisfying about that.
I was here. I exist. I'm alive, because I bleed.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
Paul Mooney
#11. But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.
Julie Bale
#12. Ellie screwed a plaque into the back of one of the chairs: "His Royal Ass Was Here." Beside it, Marty scratched into the wood: "And it was fiiine." I
Emma Chase
#13. In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all of that fell away, and there was only what was here, and what was to be done.
Geoff Ryman
#14. They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.
Andre Caldwell
#15. I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.
Elizabeth Norris
#16. Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
Lionel Blue
#17. I'm at Lance's front door. Let me in." "What? How did you know I was here?" "Because I'm psychic, and Instagram is my oracle. Now let me in. You are seriously interfering with my weekly orgasm quota right now.
Helena Hunting
#19. Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.
Jay Leno
#21. People need to understand that if I comment on something, it's not because I want to argue, troll, or change anyone's mind. It's because I want to say 'I was here
Christopher "Jack" Nilssen
#22. With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I can't explain how relieved I felt for this simple mercy. She was here and safe on clean sheets.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#23. Oh,umm Arianna,this is Jack.He, uh, well, what did he tell you?"
"He said he was here to inspect the beds. I figured he was one of your old friends.
Kiersten White
#24. If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".
Paulo Coelho
#25. He had not perished. That might be his only significant accomplishment. He had survived. Yes, he'd been defeated, more than once. But fortune had refused to release him. And he was here now, whole, and quietly accepting of the fact though he honestly did not know why.
Anne Rice
#26. No need to offend anyone in the first minute I was here. I usually saved that for day two.
Kat Austen
#27. I was here, pet. I was always here. Even if you told me you needed me just for an hour, for this, I would have been there." Marcus spoke gruffly into his hair, holding him tighter. "Why is it so fucking hard for you to believe I love you?
Joey W. Hill
#28. Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.
Warren Eyster
#29. I wish my auntie was here."
"I wish my father.. O, what's the use?
William Golding
#30. History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes.
Robert Lowell
#31. The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.
Emily Ratajkowski
#32. She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn't a dream; he really was here.
Cherise Sinclair
#33. Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.
Ellen Greene
#34. A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."
Frank Carson
#35. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.
Steve Yzerman
#36. Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.
Dick Francis
#37. I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.
Beth Harbison
#38. Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
Chet Atkins
#39. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak
#41. The place I belong...Maybe it did exist. I was too stupid and stubborn to notice it, but what I really wished for back then was here. Why do I always see these things after they're done and gone?
Kentaro Miura
#42. When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Eddie Murray
#43. Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.
Katrina Kenison
#44. She was lovely. I just wanted to enjoy her without responsibility, but that wasn't why she was here. She'd come here to submit to me. I had a job.
C.D. Reiss
#45. Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
Eva Braun
#46. Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true sort is just as needful to the character of a woman as of a man.
George MacDonald
#47. At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career!
Mads Sukalikar
#48. Alone at home,
Washing dishes while thinking about her that
How beautiful it would've been if she was here.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#49. She taught me only how to need to be taken care of.
I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust.
Aspen Matis
#50. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
Edward Gibbon
#51. I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
Suzanne Collins
#52. She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The
Robert Goolrick
#53. He almost felt like he was betraying Julia. But what did he owe her? It's not like she even would have cared. And Professor Sunderland was here. He wanted somebody who was part of his new world. Julia had her chance.
Lev Grossman
#54. I wished Annabeth was here. She'd know what to make of my dream. I'd never admit it to her, but she was smarter than me, even if she was annoying sometimes.
Rick Riordan
#55. What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.
Ilona Andrews
#56. He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.
Joe Queenan
#57. Grief. What a horrid thing it is, yet I hold tightly to it. The agony I feel is how I remember he was here, that he existed.
B.N. Toler
#58. The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.
Danny Danon
#59. What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'
Chris Cornell
#60. I wasn't here to make love. I was here to make war.
R.K. Lilley
#61. One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
#62. But she'd managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.
Jostein Gaarder
#63. I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
Roger Daltrey
#64. The first week I was here, a girl got canned for humming an Erasure song while she was churning butter. It's like, yeah, Erasure is historic, but not historic enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
Carine Roitfeld
#66. The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation.
Mark Twain
#67. Weird noises: Happen in the wee hours.
Me, unaffected: The only supernatural and ominous force in this place is me and I was here first, so whatever and whoever you are you need to go.
Unknown
#68. Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias - boredom.
Arthur C. Clarke
#69. It was so close to his own thoughts - that everything he knew was gone, but that this was here, in its place, this one bright thing.
C.S. Pacat
#70. I was here but now I'm gone
I left my name to carry on
Those who liked me
Liked me well
Those who didn't can go to hell'"
-The bathroom wall
E.M. Crane
#71. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.
Ruth Brown
#72. Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space. She wished that he was here with her. Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her? Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?
L.J.Smith
#73. It would all be fine, even if it went to hell, so long as he was here with her.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life. He was here to do what he could, whatever he could, that she might have a life to choose, one day. Whoever and whatever that included was her own affair.
Laini Taylor
#75. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name
Boris Pasternak
#76. A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.
Elvis Presley
#77. Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here."
"I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself.
Robin Bielman
#78. Really the writer doesn't want success ... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
William Faulkner
#79. I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.
Nick Carter
#80. I studied him silently. He looked like he always did - a living, breathing statue. Perfection without any humanity, and yet he was here.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.
Michael Anthony
#82. Time was something that moved in fits and starts for Magnus, dissipating like mist or dragging like chains, but when Alec was here, Magnus's time seemed to fall into an easy rhythm with Alec's, like two heartbeats falling into sync.
Cassandra Clare
#83. It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter.
Tyne O'Connell
#84. If our rest was here, most of God's providences must be useless. Should God lose the glory of his church's miraculous deliverances, and of the fall of his enemies, that men may have their happiness here?
Richard Baxter
#85. Jace shrugged and looked at the floor. He wanted to leave. He couldn't do this with her mother in the house, especially not after the woman had told him to keep his dick in his pants. The sole reason he was here was to put his dick in her daughter. Repeatedly and in excess.
Olivia Cunning
#86. A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
Alain De Botton
#87. I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.
Ed Sheeran
#88. The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.
Nancy Thayer
#89. If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Alec's face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here.
Louisa May Alcott
#90. When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
Eddie Murray
#91. In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.
Joan Didion
#92. The usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.
Anthony Horowitz
#93. It wasn't so much that the male entity had a couple of inches on him in height
which was impressive, as few beings topped his six-foot-four stance
as it was the muscled girth of him. And the aura of absolute malevolent blood-thirst that said he was here to make Nick-McNuggets.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#94. I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#95. ALREADY KNOW the camp on the moors. It was here that Himmelstoss gave Tjaden his education. But now I know hardly anyone here; as ever, all is altered. There are only a few people that I have occasionally met before. I go through the routine mechanically. In the evenings I generally
Erich Maria Remarque
#96. She wasn't here to make memories. She was here for the flashing lights and the sweat and the smoke and the feel of someone else's skin against hers.
Amy Zhang
#97. Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
P. J. O'Rourke
#98. God, those eyes. Take cover, they said, because the storm was here now.
Caisey Quinn
#99. For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along. "Ah,
Daniel Wallace
#100. We know our land was here before we came and that it will be here long after we are gone. With our wine, we have survived wars, the Revolution and phylloxera. Each harvest renews promises made in the spring. We live with the continuing cycle. This gives us a taste of eternity.
Don Kladstrup
