“I knew you'd come, Claire. I knew you would. Dear God, you took your time.”

“I'm undecided about the time we live in. This ongoing passage to oblivion. The disappearance of things you took for granted. Then there's the renaissance of things you never knew of, or presumed you'd never see again.”

Amit Chaudhuri (1962) contemporary Indian-English novelist

“Suddenly I knew that you'd have to go
Your world was not mine, your eyes told me so
Yet it was there I felt the crossroads of time
And I wondered why.”

Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer

“He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

“I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

“I always wanted to leave home. I never knew they were going to stop me from coming back. Maybe, if I knew, I never would have left. It is kind of painful to be away from everything that you've ever know. Nobody will know the pain of exile until you are in exile. No matter where you go, there are times when people show you kindness and love, and there are times when they make you know that you are with them but not of them. That's when it hurts.”

Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) South African singer and civil rights activist

“God knew my needs and took care accordingly.”

Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner

“Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

“I knew it was useless to tell the governor about conditions as I found them. I knew he would be neither interested nor would he care. It wasn’t election time.”

Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930) Irish-born American labor and community organizer

“I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ, you will get right up from that chalk outline. And then you'll get dolled up, and you'll dress in white all to take your place in his chorus line. And then in you'll come with those marching drums in a saintly compromise. No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde-haired girls for your whole eternal life. And you'll do the dance that was choreographed at the very dawn of time. Singing "I told you son, the day would come you would die, you'd die you'd die you'd die you'd die."”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician