Wallace Stegner Quote

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and hells on the inside. She wondered if the suburbs in hug...

the sapphire depthof my own love...startlesand warmsand wounds my soul.

To adore one has to yearn.

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I spr...

I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.

I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feveris...

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again tole...