Time Quote by China Miéville

“The sole thing that had kept him from going on and hunting her down had been an enraged defiance against a sexual pull that…

— Nalini Singh

“They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.”

— Diane Setterfield

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“And with that thought came a loneliness so sharp and cruel, it felt like an axe cleaving her heart in two.”

— Kristen Ciccarelli

“Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.”

— Colum McCann

“All her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't there to hold her up; they were there to make a point.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“So, on top of the betrayal, I got to feel ashamed. I got to hate myself, when the rage of Medea would have served…

— Susan Spano

“But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice.…

— Carrie Vaughn

“It were unwise to be sanguine, and unphilosophical to despair.”

— John Playfair

“He waited at her side, staring... hovering. She had the distinct impression this man wasn't used to being disobeyed. My, but he was an…

— Madison Thorne Grey

“He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at the sight…

— Michael Knight

“He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.”

— Ford Madox Ford