"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

Delight, Joy, Comfort, Emotion, Memory

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"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

Michael Chabon, American Author

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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author

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"The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

Mary Lou Retton, American Athlete

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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

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"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

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Explore more quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

"Did you get rid of that sweater like I asked?'Yes, Mother, ' Josey said.'I wasn't trying to be mean the other day. It just doesn't look good on you.'Yes, Mother, ' Josey said.The truth was, that sweater, that color, looked good on her daughter. And every time she wore it, it hinted at something that scared Margaret.Josey was growing into her beauty.Margaret watched Josey leave.She used to be a beautiful woman, the most beautiful woman around.She brought out the photo again.But that was forever ago."

Anger

"Love always hurts. That's one thing I know you know. But it's worth it. That's what you don't know. Yet."

Psychology

"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."

Reinvention

"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."

Space

"Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch."

Nostalgia

"It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again."

Bonding

"If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away"

Failure

"Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke your teeth, the chewy kind, the kind you had to work on and mull over, your eyes watering and your lips turning up into a smile you didn't want to give."

Life

"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."

Regret

"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."

Fate