Birthday Quote by Rob Sheffield

“It wasn’t about the fantasy. That was now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.”

— Rachel Cohn

“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty…

— Rachel Kushner

“she felt a sudden, unexpected surge of hope. Despite the tragedy they'd all gone through, this was what a happy family looked like; this,…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Lorraine Heath

“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment. That would be romanticization. What it actually felt like was life.”

— Nina LaCour

“I would imagine being tied up and put in a haystack while someone put the dry, stale straw ablaze. I would picture it perfectly…

— Dorothy Allison

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“And yet suddenly, terribly, he wanted it again, the way it used to be, arms linked together, all drunk and singing beautifully into the…

— Michael Shaara

“As it was, nothing happened except the two of us watching the sea come in and go out again, listening to the birds, sheltering…

— Meg Rosoff

“There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It…

— Laura Kreitzer

“And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear…

— L.J. Smith

“I'd taken a deep breath before asking about his relationship history. It was the start of this new part of our relationship, and the…

— Dorothy Koomson