While You Were Gone Quotes

#1. Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-

Elizabeth Hoyt

#2. Aedion rubbed at his face. "Do you understand what it was like to sit on my ass while you were gone? You said two hours. What was I supposed to think?"
"Aedion," she said as calmly as she could, and pulled off her filthy gloves before taking his broad, callused hand. "I get it. I do.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you were gone: a change in the interior you don't even notice at first, not until you see the stems sticking out of the garbage.

Herman Koch

#4. You thought what we had was beautiful. I did, too, except while you were gone, I made it ugly.

Kate Stewart

#5. Elora had it put in while you were gone. She's

Amanda Hocking

#6. If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

Sarah Paulson

#7. My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Hilary Mantel

#8. I'm just glad you didn't die while we were gone," Brent said. "He'd be so pissed. And you know, you'd be dead. So that would suck.

Bree Despain

#9. If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

Craig S. Keener

#10. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

Herman Melville

#12. To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

Maeve Binchy

#13. So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.

George Foreman

#14. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Melina Marchetta

#15. What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?

Elie Wiesel

#16. You've missed it again, you've gone wrong again, you thought you had time, you thought that even someone whose days were numbered would wait for you. That's the kind of person you are, dozing while more opportunities pass you by (...)

Zeruya Shalev

#17. You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be.

Angelica Hopes

#18. Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboard rail, gazing over the bay.
Annabeth took his hand. "What are you going to do while we're gone?"
"Jump in the harbor," he said casually, like another kid might say, I'm going to get a snack.

Rick Riordan

#19. You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.

Meg Cabot

#20. This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. It taught me that ... there can be no true humility and no true compassion where there is no courage.

Whittaker Chambers

#22. A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

Darrell Waltrip

#23. The saddest part about this whole thing is that while I was in there begging you to stay, I didn't fucking realize you were already gone.

Gail McHugh

#24. The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

#25. It sustained me ... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

Alice Barrett