“Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me”
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Perfect Fifths
“Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.”
— David Brin, book The Postman
Source: The Postman (1985), Section 1, “The Cascades”, Chapter 8 (p. 68)
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