Quotes About Yearning

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that no one has ever been loved the way everybody wants to be loved, and that's hard. That's hard. --last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand

Time goes too fast. Come home.

Nostalgia is longing for a place you'd never move back to.

Louca para ser livre'. Palavras mortas. Ninguém se liberta só com palavras.

No lugar desconhecido habita o desejo.

We all just want to be the hero in the story. Mimi.D.

she wanted to shake him, because in all her life she had never expected this kind of loneliness.

For people like us, home doesn't exist.

It was then that Ella realized she had no mother who'd search for her in this way. She was surprised by how bitterly she felt this lack-for a contingency that would never occur.

Hoonie would have known enough not to want something he could not have—this forbearance was something that any normal peasant would have accepted about his life and what he was allowed to desire.

When she was there, she had not loved it enough.

I'm making a wish, Solly. I'm making a wish. Sometimes, that's how it starts.

he walked home alone, deep in thoughts of her, and he knew that he wanted to be with her, even if it would not be easy.

More than anything, she was afraid of running into him. Yet it would be worse, she thought, never to see him at all.

The stupid heart could not help but hope.

Like a man starved, Noa filled his mind, ravenous for good books.

This sound, the sound of her own voice, felt familiar, not because it was her own voice but because it reminded her of all the times she'd gone to the market as a girl - first with her father, later by herself as a young woman, then as a lover yearning for the gaze of her beloved.

It is not given to each of us To be desired.

Tell me what is there, what is there about you that so satisfies me when I touch you? from "Pazzarella

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted.

Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She's the only one I wonder about. I hope she wonders about me too.

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more. (P.83)

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more.