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“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”
“I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried”
“The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.”
“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.”
“It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so ...”
“Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.”
“Satan is hopelessly desperate as Jesus waits patiently.”
“Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos fo...”
“I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but Im too busy feeling desperate.”
“When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live wire of sex, because he knows that beneath the hard carapace of indifference th...”
“I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.”
“First off, he said, I want to say Im sorry about E.Z. He was a good kid. He didnt deserve For a moment he almost lost it as a surge of emotion welled up from nowhere. Im sorry he died.Someone sobbe...”
“Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.”
“Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.”
“You're reaching outAnd no one hears you cryYou're freaking out again'Cause all your fearsRemind you another dream has come undoneYou feel so small and lost like you're the only oneYou wanna scream ...”
“She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.”
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was ...”
