A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It’s up to you. - Vicky Arthurs
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.Words you can’t have back, so they linger. - Coco J. Ginger
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. - Dennis E. Adonis
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness. - Jaeda DeWalt
At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go. - Jasmine Sandozz
Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias. - Adam Phillips
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. - Zeena Schreck
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is. - Sherwood Smith
I wanted to stay like that forever, letting the kiss linger. I was left standing there in awe as he gently pulled away and gave me a warm smile. Let’s go, the others will be wondering where we are, he said playfully. - Andrea Heltsley
Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound - Munia Khan