Empty Quote by Kim Harrison

“My wall of indifference and façade of irritation would crumble and I would be revealed for what I really was: a girl who felt…

— Nicole Williams

“Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug…

— Malak El Halabi

“I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.”

— Emily Brontë

“Ivy had once said that sharing blood was a way to show deep affection, loyalty, and friendship. I felt that way about her, but…

— Kim Harrison

“You were given a sharp, acute, uncomfortable grain..; yet in absence, in the most unlikely places, it would flower out, open, shed its scent,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist.”

— Jennifer Egan

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.

— John Clare

“Sometimes the feeling would sneak up on me over a number of days: friendliness, tenderness, slowly growing in the hothouse of my introspection, swelling…

— Sam Taylor

“I often wonder if attraction is based on us recognizing what we ourselves lack.”

— Jay Bell

Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

— Fernando Pessoa

I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do…

— Florence Henderson

“Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe