Quote by Jennifer E. Smith

“Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”

— Spencer Gordon

“...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.”

— Lemony Snicket

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“He was everything she could ever want and everything she knew she could no longer do without.”

— Nina D'Angelo

“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was…

— Nella Larsen

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person…

— Shannon Celebi

“Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives... Because…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.”

— Edith Wharton

“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…

— J. Robert Lennon

“She wanted everything back, as we do sometimes in our irrationality and regret; we want it all back.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She had done all she could. It didn’t feel like enough. Nothing, in fact, ever did.”

— Lilith Saintcrow