Family Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Shaking his head as he laid the invitation down on his desk, he leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head,…

— Jen Turano

“...and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated all memory,…

— Junot Díaz

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“Nillness, that was where Lula Landry had gone, and where all of them, he and Rochelle included, were headed. Sometimes illness turned slowly to…

— Robert Galbraith

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did…

— Sherry Thomas

“She could scarcely forgive him--least of all now, when the heavy footstep of their approaching Fate might be heard, nearer, nearer, nearer!--for being able…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. They wanted to…

— A.S. Byatt

“Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?”

— Lorraine Heath

“Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that…

— Jo Baker

“Nita stood still, listening to Joanne's footsteps hurrying away, a little faster every second- and slowly began to realize that she'd gotten what she…

— Diane Duane