Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle…
— Pittacus Lore
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Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is…
— Jennifer Egan
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and…
— Cynthia Lord
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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the…
— Ann Aguirre
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Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that…
— Jamie Ford
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I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second…
— Jamie Ford
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...I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to…
— David Eddings
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
— Veronica Roth
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Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss…
— Charlaine Harris
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I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.
— Michelle Sagara
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Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up
— Alexandra Potter
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Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't…
— Kathryn Stockett
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He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull…
— Jay Asher
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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan.…
— Libba Bray
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Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than…
— Libba Bray
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Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to…
— Libba Bray
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