Losing Him Quotes

• Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Voice, Wish, Tone

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• Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kissing, Hands, Choices

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• I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

  Queen Victoria

  Life, Country, Baby

  Queen Victoria, Victoria Victoria, A. C. Benson (2014). “The Letters of Queen Victoria”, p.602, Cambridge University Press

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• Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Joy

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• Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

  Richie Sambora

  Dad, Grief, Eight

  "Richie Sambora gets through his tough times". Access Hollywood, www.today.com. February 15, 2008.

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• ... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Way, Salvation, Outlook

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• [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Father, Blessing, Comfort

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• sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

  Lena Dunham

  Dating, Bored, Argument

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.48, Random House

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