Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but…
— Ann Brashares
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he…
— Jo Nesbo
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our…
— Kami Garcia
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I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.
— David Levithan
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I'd do the lifting, but I just got a manicure. And I notice you don't have a manicure at all. Only thing noticeable about your…
— Janet Evanovich
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His thumb went back and forth over the satin, as if he were rubbing her hip as he had when they’d been together, and he…
— J R Ward
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That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
— Jeanette Winterson
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day…
— Anne Tyler
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I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has,…
— Tracy Chevalier
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I’m gonna miss you,†Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,†Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip…
— Jodi Picoult
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last…
— Suzanne Collins
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[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Did I kill him?†I said. “No, miss,†said Robert. “Pity.
— Franny Billingsley
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home…
— Gregory Maguire
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We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children…
— Liane Moriarty
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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
— Barbara Tuchman
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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big…
— E E Cummings
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