Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as mad, for…

— Marcel Proust

“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and…

— Ellery Queen

“She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the…

— Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“Do you wish," Wit asked, "that you could go back to not being able to see?" "No," she whispered. "Then live. And let your…

— Brandon Sanderson

“I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me.”

— John Green

“I wished I had told her what I was doing. I wished I had said more, argued more. Maybe then I wouldn't have this…

— Julie Kagawa

“She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.”

— Raymond Chandler

“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.”

— Kate Chopin

“I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the…

— Gordon Dahlquist

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen…

— Graham Greene

“I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her.”

— Don DeLillo