“I’m always wondering if he’ll return, sometimes I pray that he doesn’t. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes.”— Jacqueline Woodson, amazon.com
“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Hoping against hope is what I choose to do because, dear lover, it is not easy to let go of somebody as precious as you.”— Peshla Kumar, thoughtcatalog.com