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• There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Dream, Clothes, Feelings

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Height, Annihilation

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Blue

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• My mouth opened. It happened. Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling. Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.

  Markus Zusak

  Lying, Boys, Past

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• All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

  Veronica Roth

  Feelings, Want, Delusional

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• And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

  Franz Kafka

  Hands, Gentleman, Way

  Franz Kafka (2008). “Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Penguin Classics

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• She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Kissing, Bye

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Firsts, Shame

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• That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Funny Things, Knowing

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

  Kim Harrison

  Names, Want, Chaotic

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• He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

  Sylvia Day

  Cutting, Looks, Few Words

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.153, Penguin

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• That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.

  Dan Abnett

  Hands, Half, Body

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• He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Simple, Men, Bridges

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• Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.

  Charles Frazier

  Distance, People, Different

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Weakness, Hollywood

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• In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

  Twyla Tharp

  World, Clock, Profit

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• Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

  Suzanne Collins

  Found

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

  Anne Carson

  Song, Drama, Heart

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

  Trent Reznor

  Jumping, Desperate Situations, Advantage

  "Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Neala Johnson, www.heraldsun.com.au. May 16, 2007.

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• Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sometimes, Life Is

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.290, Head of Zeus

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Sight, Differences

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.275, Macmillan

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• In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Princess, Men

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

  Freya North

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Motivational, Leadership, Iron

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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