Missing Piece Quotes

“Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“What I feel is not like the ballads.'

'No an affliction, then?' Oak raises an eyebrow. 'No fever?'

Tiernan gives him an exasperated look- one with which the prince is very familiar. 'It is more feeling that there is a part of me I have left somewhere and I am always looking for.'

'So he's liking a missing phone?'

'Someone ought to pitch you into the sea,' ...”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Sometimes we humans are like brainless chickens, we run around aimlessly and to no avail, we seem to be looking for something that we don't even know what it is, some sort of missing piece, which isn't even there. Why don't most of us realise that life isn't about looking for the missing piece, but actually to learn live with the fact that one might never find it and still have a happy and fulfilled life nonetheless?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I found the missing piece. It is you.”
― Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“I could set the very last piece of sand in my soul, upon Mother Earth, again.”
― Petra Hermans

“Sometimes we need to think from a different perspective in order to reach the next level of our lives. In other words, an opportunity we view as pointless might actually be what we need to help us move forward.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar