She had beauty that endured, and a smile that was not…

“What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if…

— André Aciman

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we…

— William Butler Yeats

“Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they’d had, as if it could linger in the air…

— Cynthia Voigt

“A voice lingered in the sky, humming narratives of decay orchestrated by the mighty one...”

— Lila Marquez

“Had I known you were waiting, Miss MacFarlane, I would not have lingered,I assure you." Flattery was something she knew how to deal with,…

— Karen Hawkins

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“I lingered a bit longer. The tug of kinship held me there, bound me to the place and to a man I had never…

— Daniel James Brown

“She lingered by the door, in a tunic of deep blue and gold, unbuttoned with careless grace at the neck, her hair loose at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Then, like now, she had lingered on the brink of a decision, and had not found in his favour. Now, perhaps, she has. He…

— Laura Barnett

“city, but still it lingered, like a tune or an aroma, set in motion whenever”

— Joan London

“Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind.”

— Stephanie Perkins

But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without…

— Philip K. Dick

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

— Jack London

“Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.”

— Khaled Hosseini