If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
"You and your sad little lifespan. This temple you stand in, this city you think ancient, this empire I've tended from infancy - such things take time to build and grow. Yet you presume to call me hasty. I am nothing if not patient."
Una the Archivist 📜
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
“The second hand went around and around. Civilizations collapsed. Continents collided. Ants built a spaceship and left in disgust. The sun ate what was left.”
Laura Scott
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
“In the fraught, heavy silence that stretched out interminably between asking the question and hearing the answer, I had an annoyingly long time to think about how patience, alas, is not one of the virtues with which I was blessed.”
Claire Willett
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
“I desperately wished for just a glimpse of the future l to see if all this would be worth it. But I had to take the long way round.”
Jessie Gender
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
“The stars danced overhead, keeping me silent company.”
Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
Mine: I sent in my proposal.
Kieron Gillen
Write "I waited" without saying it:
"I became annoyed. I looked at my watch. I became more annoyed."
Thomas M, Full-time Rascal
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
Mine: I leaned like that against the wall, thinking little, idly dazzled by the leaves' motion in the sunlight, comfortably on my friend's timeline and not my own.
lumpley
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
Mine: I imagined myself as the rock on which I sat, and let time and weather roll on past.
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.
Mine: The frantic centrifugal force of the world spun around me as I remained still.
static.klipy.com
Alt: Cartoon person with long dark hair and pale blue skin tapping puffed out cheekswaiting waiting