Desperately Quote by Caroline Sullivan

“I loved him desperately, completely, and he wasn’t threatening to consume me anymore. He already had. Everything that was me was him. My heart,…

— Cassandra Giovanni

“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the…

— H.G. Wells

“I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I’d lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle…

— Andre Dubus III

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

— Esmeralda Santiago

For 15 years now, we have lived here. Before that time, I was a pet of my master Yoshi. When we were forced to…

— Master Splinter

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

— Wendell Pierce

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies…

— Timothy Findley

The first five years I lived in New York I was going out every night, to restaurants and album releases and parties.

— Molly Yeh

When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and…

— Choi Sung-bong

“In eighteen years I would have lived approximately six thousand, six hundred and fifty-six days, nine hundred and fifty weeks, two hundred and eighteen…

— Stephanie Skeem

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things…

— David Berman

“For four years he lived in Brooklyn, and four years in Brooklyn are a geologic age -- a single stratum of grey time. They…

— Thomas Wolfe