Absence Quote by Clive Barker Download Open image “She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.” — Clive Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Offers Wanted
He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“She’d loved him too much and given too much of herself away in the process. She had given him everything and never demanded anything… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
“She had everything to offer; he had nothing. And yet she wanted him anyway. It was at that moment that he fell in love… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch -… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
