Patience Quote by Orson Scott Card

“It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.”

— Henry James

“Time. That was always the problem, wasn’t it? Running out of it. Having too much of it. Waiting for it. Cursing it. Enduring it.…

— Daryl Banner

“She was his world now, and he’d do what he could to protect it. No matter the cost.”

— Carrie Ann Ryan

“It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.”

— Melina Marchetta

“The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly…

— Ann Brashares

“My need for him was almost palpable because any time that wasn't spent in his arms was just... wasted. Our time was always so…

— Courtney Cole

“You just cost him something he didn't want to lose.”

— Nora Sakavic

“Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing…

— Paul Russell

“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day”

— Ayn Rand

“He'd sacrifice much for her. He'd do anything she asked of him. He'd pay any price, except one. The price of giving her up.”

— Becky Wade

“But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.”

— Kate Chopin

“It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay…

— Jennifer Estep