19th century Quote by Edith Wharton

“She hoped that although he could not hear her she could somehow imprint her ordinary love upon his memory through all eternity, hoped he…

— Joan Didion

“But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The…

— Kij Johnson

“It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides,…

— Michael Monroe

“She was the type who fell in love, fell hard, and dreamed of happily ever after.”

— Jennifer Probst

“Love was something that sat comfortably in her dreams, so she never fully expected it to materialize.”

— Abby Slovin

“She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind…

— Richard Dreyfuss

“understanding, even then, that the moment had meant something, that the world could change in an instant, and she needed to be mindful of…

— Deborah Reed

“The dream dissipated like smoke, and she tried so hard to hold it inside her heart and her memory, but like all dreams, it…

— Christopher Golden

“He was just what she wanted all those nights she dreamed of romantic love, of her own true love asking her to marry him.…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Dreams were for people who had some hope of making them come true.”

— Shayne Parkinson

“Now he understood. He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud