Bittersweet Quotes

And as Sean climbs into bed and closes his eyes, Mother comes, riding astride a lion the size of a house, blowing a clarion from a horn made out of a hollowed-out elephant's tusk. Her eyes have a faint crimson glow from the lasers that are mounted behind her irises, ready to fire at will.'I touched a prince's chest today and made his heart stop,' she says. 'I'll do it again if I have to: they'll see what happens if anyone gets in my way. Good night, my son. Remember that I will always keep you safe; that I am always everywhere and always here.''Good night, Mom,' Sean says, and falls asleep.And Mother recedes, wise and beautiful and strong, a genius and a hero, a punisher of thieves and a slayer of wicked men, to watch over her son in all her different versions.

~ Dexter Palmer

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.

~ Donna Tartt

People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves, they do not look beautiful when they fall.

~ Naveed A. Khan

It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.And then he did.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

~ James Salter

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison,the roses he gave me all twisted black

~ Terra Elan Mcvoy

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

~ Irvine Welsh

And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together,/remembering just how good/life used to be

~ Guadalupe Garcia Mccall

Life at best is bittersweet.

~ Jack Kirby

He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else -- he can smell the boy's own scent, something bittersweet.

~ Lidia Roldán

Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

~ James Dashner

Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceI’d empty myself on paperEvery single morning’And it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:‘Every single morningI’d empty myself on paperYou were my greater importanceThat’s why I wrote you letters.

~ Mie Hansson

The two of us are lIke sunshine and the rain. Together... We are the wellspring of all life. But between us, there will will bloom no flowers. We shall bear no fruit. For us, all of time... Shall be evergreen.And that's fine. I will be here always. To you... I give eternity.Hotaka

~ Yuyuko Takemiya

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me,' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

~ Natasha Farrant

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

~ Eric Temple Bell

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

~ Charlotte Brontë

You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.

~ Amit Howard

It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.

~ Rachel Joyce

Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made one a boy again. He had noticed that this peculiar quality in the air of new countries vanished after they were tamed by man and made to bear harvests. Parts of Texas and Kansas that he had first known as open range had since been made into rich farming districts, and the air had quite lost that lightness, that dry, aromatic odour. The moisture of plowed land, the heaviness of labour and growth and grain-bearing, utterly destroyed it; one could breathe that only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sage-brush desert.

~ Willa Cather

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.

~ Stacey Lee

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

~ Maria Elena

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

~ John Geddes

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there.I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki

~ Brodi Ashton

We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...

~ Ricky Mears

In my humble opinion, forever is a bitter brew. - Max; Before Ever After ♥

~ Samantha Sotto

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.

~ Ivan Turgenev

But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.

~ Sarah Ockler

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

~ Cameron Crowe

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

~ Sarah Ockler

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

~ Herman Hesse