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Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your
desk 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

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso. — Rick Riordan

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

No sun cream or condoms, just in case you're looking at the lady-boys. There's plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine. — Simon Palmer

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 hues
That 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

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. — Ovid

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

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. — Henry Vaughan

Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars. — Nina Mason

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami

The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations. — Asa Don Brown

There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils. — Lisa Graff

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

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn ... — Philip Larkin

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

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort. — Gina Greenlee

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 simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime. — Wes Adamson

The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. — Wallace Stevens

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. — Peter Hammill

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 no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. — Carl Lewis

All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid

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

He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key. — Eileen Wilks

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

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will. — Corey Taylor

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. — Mervyn Peake

Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come. — Tim Campbell

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering. — Alan Garner

Life should always be like this ... Like lingering over a good meal. — Janet Fitch

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

But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. - EDWIN MUIR — Doris Lessing

-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

A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories. — Nora Roberts

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

Sydney tugged off her shoes by the door and went to scrub the grave dirt and the lingering feel of the dead from beneath her fingernails. — V.E Schwab

waking up mornings brings lingering suffering — Geza Csath

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

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete. — Anne Perry

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank. — Charles Dickens

Nd why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl ... — Virgil

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority. — Margo Kelly

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

Sometimes I think I'm not alone in my own head, that there's a part of someone lingering there, someone who chides me to push myself beyond my limits. — A.G. Howard

savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream. — Sanober Khan

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. — Roland Gift

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible. — Ian McEwan

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

No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there's always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover. — Robert Coover

She smiles and hugs him goodbye, her hand lingering on the small of his back. They are definitely going to have sex. — Jay Asher

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader. — Paul S. Kemp