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Quotes About Yearning

The first moment I saw you, I knew you were my share of the world. I?ve always loved you. If I could choose my fate, I?d never be parted from you. Acushla ... pulse of my heart, breath of my soul ... there?s nothing on this earth more fair and fine than you. Your shadow on the ground is sunlight to me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Pandora," he said huskily, holding her against his violently thumping heart. "I love you more than I can bear. You're everything to me. You're the reason the earth turns and morning follows night. You're the meaning of primroses and why kissing was invented. You're the reason my heart beats. God help me, I'm not strong enough to survive without you. I need you too much . . . I need you . . .
~ Lisa Kleypas
She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately
~ Lisa Kleypas
Crouching over her, St. Vincent teased and fondled until he felt her hips rising tentatively against his hand. "I want to be inside you," he whispered, kissing the side of her neck. "I want to go deep into your body…I'll be so gentle, love…let me turn you over, and…God, you're so lovely…
~ Lisa Kleypas
I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Daisy Bowman," he said unevenly, "I'd spend eternity in hell for one hour with you." "Is that how long it takes? An hour?" His reply was rueful. "Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I didn't know how to stop wanting him. It wasn't that I had any hope—I knew I'd never see him again. But that didn't stop me from comparing every other man to Hardy and finding them all lacking. I had exhausted myself loving him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I love you," she said wretchedly. "And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from you. If I were well, I would take you to my bed, and I would show you as much passion as any woman could.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can't seem to make yourself want him. But that's not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can't make yourself not want him. You feel hollow inside, just waiting and wishing and dreaming. You feel like every moment is leading to something so amazing that there's no name for it, and if you could just get there with him, it would be such a...relief. It would be all you'd ever need.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
His thumb caressed the scarlet surface of her cheek. "From now on, Hannah, no matter what you say or do, I'm going to look at your mouth and remember how sweet you taste." A self-mocking smile curved his lips as he added quietly, "Damn it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Gradually his mouth shifted away from hers, and he bit softly at the delicate silk of her throat. He murmured things that shocked her, expressing himself not in flowery phrases, but with the raw simplicity of a man whose lust for her knew no limits. "I have no self-control where you're concerned. Every minute that I'm not with you, all I can think about is being inside you. I hate everything that keeps you separate from me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Harry's blood quickened as lurid images filled his mind...her against him, beneath him. That smiling mouth, his alone, her whispers curling into his ear. Her skin, soft and ivory pale in the darkness. Skin heated by skin, sensation emerging as he touched her. She was worth anything, he thought, even giving up the last remnants of his soul.
~ Lisa Kleypas
God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.
~ Claire Messud
I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.
~ Tove Lo
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
~ Charles Platt
Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a medias seré culpable, seré agua pura allí contigo.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre