Things happen for a reason Quote by Anonymous

“She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.”

— Mary McCarthy

“Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.”

— Lisa Scottoline

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure…

— Anonymous

“Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“This morning I heard : the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly,…

— Dagoberto Gilb

“He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would…

— Scott Stabile

“She wasn’t a woman who smiled and said hello.”

— Arundhati Roy

“A long moment of silence stretched out between them. Her conversation to this point had mostly been an attempt to distract him while she…

— Kristin Cashore

“Bless her head-patting heart”

— Kiersten White

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty