Strange Ache Quotes

#1. They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?

Pamela Clare

#2. a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.

Kelly Favor

#3. Naomi isn't just under my skin anymore; she's in my blood and my brain and all sorts of strange friggin' places that ache for her.

C.M. Stunich

#4. Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.

Maria Shriver

#5. I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Lee Grant

#6. Talivar slouched in the chair next to me, casually lifting his bare feet to rest upon my chair's footrest. It was an oddly possessive move. It was also oddly sexy.

Allison Pang

#7. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#8. Everyone nodded, nobody agreed.

Ian McEwan

#9. Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Chuck Jones

#10. Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

Peter Drucker

#11. Yes. I remember.
His voice had deepened. I remember. Mina did, too, every conversation they'd had over breakfast, and it made her heart ache. Such a strange thing ... She suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

Meljean Brook

#12. Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Raymond Carver

#13. I need you like the day needs the night
-Quinn O'Shea

Tammy Morea

#14. And wished with all her heart that she wasn't so tired, wished that a broken wrist would radiate violent pain instead of this strange numbing ache that was exhausting her by its subtlety and consistency.

Dorothy Gilman

#15. The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Herbert Croly

#16. I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Jacqueline Woodson

#17. A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. The past is not a package one can lay away.

Emily Dickinson

#19. You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the dark blue sky, and ache to feel your loneliness - even though I was always there. I was always there, Mae.

Charlotte Stein

#20. For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination.

Stephen Baldwin