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Quotes About Searching

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.
~ Patrick Ness
Viola? Keep calling for me– And I'll keep searching for you– And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
~ Patrick Ness
HELP!" I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out- No . No . It's empty. Viola's breathing heavy in my arms . And Haven is empty. I reach the middle of the square. I don't see nor hear a soul. I spin around again. "HELP!" I cry. But there's no one. Haven's completely empty. There ain't hope here after all.
~ Patrick Ness
He knew she wouldn't be in there – he couldn't hear the kettle boiling, which she always did first thing – but he'd found himself asking for her a lot lately when he entered rooms in the house.
~ Patrick Ness
The following day I abandoned my pointless searching and planted myself in one of the open air-cafés where I drank coffee and tried to find inspiration for the song I owed the Maer. Ten hours I spent there, and the only act of creation I accomplished was to magically transform nearly a gallon of coffee into marvelous, aromatic piss.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Aunque entonces no lo sabía, yo estaba buscando el nombre del viento.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Alors, tu as trouvé ? a-t-elle demandé. - Quoi donc ? - Mais, ce que je fais là ! a-t-elle expliqué avec un gentil sourire. Je me suis posé cette question toute ma vie. Je m'étais dit que tu en avais peut-être une idée...
~ Patrick Rothfuss
and that looking for her would serve about as much purpose as calling for a cat.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I was like a sparrow in a storm, unable to find a safe branch to cling to. Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
handicapping heaven, searching for patterns, and a portal of probability opening up onto the meaning of life
~ Patti Smith
We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
~ Paul Auster
My friend Graeme Wood, a journalist who has written extensively about ISIS, including a book based on interviews with both new recruits and long-standing members, tells me that many of those who joined the group were jaded when they signed up. They've had a lot of anonymous sex, they've taken every drug there is, they've lived lives of empty pleasure. But this wasn't enough. They were looking for more, something of real value.
~ Paul Bloom
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and enroute. — from "The Meridian
~ Paul Celan
You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.
~ Paul David Tripp
God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.
~ Unknown
When people go looking for something, they often find something else.
~ Paul J. McAuley
People with BPD look to others to provide things they find difficult to supply for themselves, such as self-esteem, approval, and a sense of identity. Most of all, they are searching for a nurturing caregiver whose never-ending love and compassion will fill the black hole of emptiness and despair inside them.
~ Unknown
Searching out something important and going astray look exactly the same for a while, in fact.
~ Paula McLain
I've been looking for you everywhere," he said, taking my arm. Without
~ Paula McLain
I remembered running for miles looking for an occupied warthog hole with arap Maina, and then stooping to crinkle paper outside the mouth of its den. This was what you did to call out the pig, the noise working to aggravate the animal in some way I didn't understand but rarely saw fail.
~ Paula McLain
the strange questing feeling that comes from abandonment, that were he to keep on searching about in his mind and memory he would find someone or something to comfort him. The
~ Paulette Jiles
Me estuviste buscando?», le había preguntado Tatiana una vez, y él había contestado: «Toda la vida».
~ Paullina Simons
Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.
~ Paullina Simons