Have you ever met someone and felt… I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know… Forget I said anything." I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet. . Ilona Andrews
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
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Charles M. Schulz
For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.
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Lemony Snicket
I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.
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Marya Hornbacher
I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.
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Julie Metz
We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart....yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us.. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Bisco Hatori
More Quotes By Ilona Andrews
I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear...
You might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"" You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
His Majesty needs a can- I girl anyway. And I'm not it."" A can- I girl?" Andrea frowned. I leaned back. "'Can I fetch your food, Your Majesty? Can I tell you how strong and mighty you are, Your Majesty? Can I pick your fleas,...
