Desire Quote by Jasper Fforde

“With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew…

— Denis Johnson

“He didn't call me for a few weeks. This was customary within our friendship, confide and retreat, but I wondered. I wondered if perhaps…

— Miranda July

“It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.”

— Witi Ihimaera

“Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I‘d spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn‘t sold that talking did a whole heck of…

— Ilsa J. Bick

“I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do," I breathed, trying hard to pretend I wasn't fazed by what just happened. "You weren't…

— Alicia Kobishop

“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.”

— Aimee Bender

“[...] I began allowing my feelings to disturb me. This was scary, because I had always assumed my feelings were so big and powerful…

— Glennon Doyle

“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could…

— Megan Hart

“I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human condition.”

— Michael Nava

“In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears,…

— Samuel Beckett

“It wasn't so much that I couldn't talk about it; it was that I didn't want to. Not right then. I knew myself well…

— Alexandra Bracken

Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are…

— Stephenie Meyer