Petra Nemcova Quotes

I just know that I’m not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven’t been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I’ve been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can’t seem to do that anymore. When I’m with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

I just want to be in a relationship.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

Relationships have been a way of life and I don't regret being in one ever.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.