“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”

Source: Giovanni's Room

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(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Awakening

“I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

Giannina Braschi book Yo-Yo Boing!

Yo-Yo Boing! (Spanglish novel, 1998)

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“It is not desire.
Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him
constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment,
and I want the moments to go on forever.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The compassion of Christ inclines Him to save sinners, —
the power of Christ enables Him to save sinners, — and the
promise of Christ binds Him to save sinners.
A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
On Thy kind arms I fall;
Be Thou my Strength and Righteousness,
My Saviour and my All.”

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician

Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 82.

“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”

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