Lingering Emotions Quotes

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Lost love is still love.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Nothing ever goes away.

They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.

...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

Low, a guy doesn't fall in love with you and have you love him back then just throw it away. You're too special. After being loved by you, he can't completely forget. He's haunted by it. I'd bet my life on it." -Cage York

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.