Affair Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known.…

— Nicholas Sparks

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

“Once the exhilaration of their reunion wore off, once the newness of their lovemaking was no longer so new, how would she see him?…

— Sherry Thomas

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

— Nora Roberts

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It…

— Cecelia Ahern

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't…

— Kim Edwards

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness…

— Kristin Cashore

She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost.…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart…

— Anonymous

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne