Waiting Patiently Quote by Denis Johnson

“She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind,…

— Enid Bagnold

“Perhaps he’d recently lost some bulk. But there was plenty of him remaining, and all of it was lean and hard. His body was…

— Tessa Dare

“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“Most of being young, she had always thought, was playing a game of elimination with an army of different selves until you settled on…

— Ted Thompson

“She danced with complete abandon. She never felt so light and free. She could stretch her arms forever, touch the heavens and pull down…

— S. Walden

“She sat in her chair, eyes closed. She liked to be the last one to leave. She despised crowds, and their opinions as they…

— Janet Fitch

“She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that…

— Jane Austen

“He was in search of a story, nothing more. He shouldn't be thinking about her bedroom at all. But, in a matter of minutes,…

— Aria Kane

“But he had held her hand, he had looked into her face in the dark hall, and a strange ecstatic entrancement had come over…

— Anna Kavan

“In the weak light of the lonely lamp, he held onto her, for a solid minute, his head buried in her neck as if…

— Kendall Grey

“While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired…

— Monica Dickens

“Just when she was about to scream with frustration he flexed his hips and slid inside her. Her body welcomed him as he buried…

— Sarah Mayberry