Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up…

“His expression is inscrutable. His eyes look strange with their pulsing pupils. “You’re not like other girls. You’re special.” Intoxicating warmth crawls over my…

— Sophie Jordan

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

— David Ogden Stiers

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when I graduated…

— Jessica Mendoza

An odd thing happens when we die, our senses vanish. Taste, touch, smell and sound become a distant memory, but our sight? Ah, our…

— Desperate Housewives

“Oh, nothing. Only you really did help them, you know.” “Who?” “All the men who’ve come through this House. You helped them find their…

— Helene Wecker

“How could anything be the same? The red of blood lay over the market road in slick pools mingled with a yellow spread of…

— Kiran Desai

“I don’t care if you’ve changed. I don’t care who you are now. I don’t need or want your explanations because what you did,…

— Samantha Young

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were…

— Sandra Bernhard

“They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are…

— Kinley MacGregor

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and…

— Ryan Babel

Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers, and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to…

— Henry Beard

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!

— Diana Ross

“...for if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary and though we ourselves rush ceaselessly forward our recollections, indissolubly bound to the sites…

— Marcel Proust

“So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.”

— John Green