Quotes About Yearning

jaded , adj . In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God...

I would always wait to take you home.

The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.

You are so close, and I can't reach you.

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.

I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.

You can't deny that there's something between us. No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

It is always an act of desperation, and I keep asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

When I leave my own house, there's always a part of me that stays behind, waiting for me to get back. That's what makes it my home - that feeling that a part of me is always waiting for me there.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

All the feelings Are dead inside me And I want them To be alive

It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel.

We found out a long time ago that we weren't meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

But there's something about her—the cities on her shoes, the flash of bravery, the unnecessary sadness—that makes me want to know what the word will be when it stops being a sound. I have spent years meeting people without ever knowing them, and on this morning, in this place, with this girl, I feel the faintest pull of wanting to know. And in a moment of either weakness or bravery on my own part, I decide to follow it. I decide to find out more.

If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a different body, that kiss could transform the night from off to on. If I were in a different body, she would see me inside. She would see what she wanted to see. But now it's awkward.

Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.