"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."

Longing, Fortune, Loss, Love

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"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."

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"No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"These Moments Cascade Upon One Another"Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Where were you then?Who else was there?Saying what?Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?"

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing."

Richard Wagner, German Composer

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"Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Longing, Death, Sleep, Escape

"But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Longing, Love, Emotion, Truth

"I think about you every second of every day and I don't know how to get over you, she says."Don't, I beg her. "Please don't get over me."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Longing, Love, Emotion, Relationship

"And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."

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"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

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"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."

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"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."

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"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."

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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

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"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."

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"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."

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"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."

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