“ And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothin… Nicholas Sparks
“ She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys
“ Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart… Gustave Flaubert
“ My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory. A.D. Orbit
“ When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys would say, 'Oh, you're so great,' but they wouldn't date me. I thought I wasn't pretty enough. But then I go… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to… Stephen Chbosky
“ How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a… Paul Bowles
“ It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace… John Galsworthy
“ The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is imp… Ludwig Feuerbach
“ There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it. Gaby Dunn
“ Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“ I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...fo… Charlotte Featherstone
“ The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it… Anuradha Roy
“ ... and you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we've been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you're so nervous and excited that you keep talking about s… Caroline Kepnes
“ This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little princ… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. Lionel Shriver
“ I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That’s when they’re honest. Donna Lynn Hope
