#waiting

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad. ↗

— Sharon Creech

#waiting #sad

There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a boy who found a girl during a terrible time.” “How did it turn out?” “I don’t know, but I do know the boy doesn’t regret it. Not a minute. No matter how it turns out. Because he’s been waiting for this girl from the time she was born, and if it takes another thousand years to meet her again, he’d wait again. Whatever it takes. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#waiting #love

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless. ↗

— R.S. Thomas

#imagine #impatient #return #slow #timeless

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#waiting #love

The smile upon my lips, 
 It will surely never die 
 As I'm waiting here for you 
 until you're by my side. ↗

— Freida Martinez

#love #smile #waiting #love

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #waiting #love

Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city -- a planet? -- by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes. "It needs a title," Signorina Scala said. Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun. "It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis. ↗

— John M. Ford

#john-m-ford #star-wars #the-dragon-waiting #imagination

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The night is still waiting. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #night #poetry

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore. ↗

— Guillaume Musso

#love #waiting #love