The Lover Quotes

“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Les corps des hommes ont des formes avares, internées.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Gloomily the clouds are sailing
O'er the dimly moonlit sky;
Dolefully the wind is wailing,
Not another sound is nigh.”
― Anne Brontë, The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte

“You are my answered prayer,
My fulfilled wish,
My realized dream.”
― Zakiya and Majid