Fulfillment Quote by Shūsaku Endō

“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand…

— Eleanor H. Porter

“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was…

— Nella Larsen

“It wasn’t about gratification, but there was no need that wasn’t met, whether it was physical or something less definable.”

— Stephenie Meyer

“she thought of all the years that had led up to this—all those seconds and minutes and hours, spent elsewhere, with others, doing other…

— Laura Barnett

“She thought she would do something with them someday, although she could not have said what and in fact she never did.”

— Diane Schoemperlen

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

“If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt…

— Moore Lorrie

“It had been so long since she’d given herself permission to just feel without thinking, to act without discussing the consequences. And yeah, there…

— Leah Braemel

“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.”

— Talena Winters

“that she didn’t believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She did not know. She did not mind...She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything...-and one could be in…

— Virginia Woolf