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There is no love that is not an echo. — Theodor W. Adorno

I'd like to be the moon in your sky. — Debasish Mridha

The look of wistful passion in Kellan's eyes in that one brief glance almost had me running across the room to throw myself in his arms - Thoughtless — S.C. Stephens

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell. — Laini Taylor

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ... — Mordecai Richler

We are these people,
wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour. — Hilda Doolittle

That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here. — Sachin Kundalkar

Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141) — Cody McFadyen

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father. — Michael Leunig

Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night. — Rabindranath Tagore

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone. — Maggie O'Farrell

I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance. — Karen Elson

If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture. — Patricia Highsmith

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry. — Oscar Levant

I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, — Oscar Wilde

All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

You're just ... You're everything
His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic. — Jessica Park

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors — Raymond Chandler

we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. — Sanober Khan

Funny, isn't it? We hear the same name and while they see dark, I see light. — Nadia Hashimi

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now — Carol Ryrie Brink

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. — Shirley Jackson

What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please. — Elizabeth Carlton

He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They're wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. "I — Sally Thorne

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo. — Noel Coward

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. — Benoit Mandelbrot

The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter."
""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army. — J.R. Ward

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan