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Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin. — Gina Greenlee
She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water.
— Joseph Conrad
Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss.
— Cassandra Giovanni, Let The Fates Decide
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
— Madhur Bhandarkar
In the West, America could cast off the lingering influence of the Old World and blossom into a truly original civilization.
— Ben Tarnoff
Fairest of all that earth beholds, the huesThat live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews. — William C. Bryant
Your lingering cigarette smell makes me feel more empty.
— Mika Yamamori
They warned of taints lingering from the Builders' war, stains from their poisons, or shadows from the Day of a Thousand Suns.
— Mark Lawrence
Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.
— Richelle Mead
Sometimes, in order to solve a lingering problem, perseverance seems to be the only option
— Lamees Alhassar
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations.
— Asa Don Brown
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
— Natalie Coughlin
There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.
— Lily Graham
There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.
— Sonali Deraniyagala
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
— Diana Peterfreund
Sillage, I thought. The lingering impression of a kiss having ended.
— Robyn Schneider
A woman is like fine whisky. Deep and subtle, smooth but strong, warm yet lingering.
— Wan-Ling, Wong
he ordered, eyes lingering on the Tiste Andii.
— Steven Erikson
I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
— Christina Baker Kline
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side ...
— Nichole Nordeman
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
— William Wordsworth
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
— Herman Melville
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
— Philip Sidney
Said that gems are lingering reminders of where the gods' hands touched the earth during creation.
— Marie Lu
The juice was delicious, with the fresh bite and lingering umami of freshly squeezed oranges.
— Chloe Neill
With every breath, Aideon felt that lingering scent wrapping tighter around his heart and soul. When she came back, he was never letting her go.
— Sarah J. Maas
The tomb in PalestineIs not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. — Wallace Stevens
From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away.
— Katherine McIntyre
He leaves. Just like that. No final good-bye, no last, lingering glance.Like we never loved each other at all. — Sara Raasch
I have a way with words, & they have a way of lingering...
— Dayelle Brown
Just a lingering memory.
— Haruki Murakami
Vectra rounded up whatever lingering questions she may've had and tossed them as far and deep into the recesses of her mind as she could manage.
— AlTonya Washington
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
— Samuel Beckett
Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.
— Kevin Wilson
Lingering flashes from the past are the moments you truly lived and want to live again.
— Moonish Sood
Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.
— Michael Frayn
My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.
— Thomas Sweeney
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
— Subramanya Bharathi
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
— Mervyn Peake
The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.
— Alan Garner
Eloise and Eric Hunter gave each other one last, lingering, meaningful kiss, before they took their last breaths, their hands still intertwined.
— Rebekah Mussett
So I'd lie there, lingering in that space between sleep and consciousness, and let him touch me in all the ways he wanted.
— Nash Summers
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
— Mary McCarthy
With one last lingering look at Anastasia Steele - the first woman I've ever slept with - I head out for my run.
— E.L. James
-a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.
— Khaled Hosseini
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called 'Living' is conquered at last.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
— Georg Buchner
Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
— Lorrie Moore
She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.
— Chuck Palahniuk
waking up mornings brings lingering suffering
— Geza Csath
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Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there - maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury - had been truly awful.
— James Dashner
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
— J. Maarten Troost
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
— Walter Scott
That's because I prefer it that way," he responded. "Strong and rough, enough to leave a lingering ache. I like it to hurt just a bit." Oh
— J.M. Darhower
Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.
— Karen Gibbs
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
— Mohamed Nasheed
Lincoln's eyes travel over my body, his gaze lingering on my curves. "I think I'm falling in love."
— Katie McGarry
Lingering labors come to naught.
— Robert Southwell
It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
— Dennis Hastert
A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
— Edward T. Welch
His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.
— Rebecca Berto
But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.
— Steven Martin
