Did you fall asleep?"" No. I couldn't sleep that night."" You were restless?"" I was thinking of you." The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on. Wilkie Collins
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>It’s the condition-less state of the...
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Coco J. Ginger
For she had eyes and chose me.
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William Shakespeare
He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Coco J. Ginger
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
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Coco J. Ginger
More Quotes By Wilkie Collins
Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the...
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
The books–the generous friends who met me without suspicion–the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days,...
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it...
