Quote by Alice Hoffman

“We didn't speak our truest thoughts, and paraphrased our souls until we didn't know our feelings, and so were strangers to ourselves.”

— Adam Novy

“Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?”

— S.T. Gibson

“So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.”

— Milton Steinberg

“There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.”

— Marcel Proust

“Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?”

— Elizabeth Hay

“people saw what they wanted to, expected to, and so rarely what was.”

— Lauren Gilley

“It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.”

— Pratik Akkawar

“We had so much to say to each other, like we’d been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as if I…

— Kimberly Novosel

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.”

— Laura Wiess

“Had they nothing else to say to one another? More serious communications were, to be sure, passing between their eyes. As they tried to…

— Gustave Flaubert