Companion Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He'd never thought he would feel that way again. Ready to brave any sorrow just to keep her at his side. Perhaps the impulse…

— Tessa Dare

“An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he…

— Faraaz Kazi

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions…

— Lisa Kleypas

“to follow one’s instincts with due regard to the policeman round the corner, had not acted very well there: it was because Cronshaw had…

— William Somerset Maugham

As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the pavement, completely…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him…

— Paulo Coelho

“His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When he held her that way, she felt so happy that it disturbed her. After he left, it would take her hours to fall…

— Mary Gaitskill

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had…

— Victor Hugo

“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past.…

— Natsume Sōseki