Life Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.”

— Craig Lancaster

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always…

— Simon Van Booy

“when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really…

— Nicholas Sparks

“And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything mirrored the…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now, attached to…

— Chris Pavone

“Back then I was always looking ahead to who I wanted to be versus who I didn’t realize I already was, and the wished-for…

— Carrie Fisher

“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his…

— Julie Orringer

“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be…

— Ann Brashares

“He was so different from her, yet in his presence she felt the possibility of another kind of life, a life she had never…

— Nicholas Sparks