logo

Quotes About Yearning

You'll be haunting my tomorrows evermore.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Fuck, you mean?His eyes narrowed to slits. Make love. Make love to me. Now
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
His knee pressed between her thighs, bunching the linen against her woman's place, spreading her and rubbing into her folds. She found herself undulating against that knee, pleasuring herself with his hard, hot, wet body.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Would you prefer it if I'd continued to wear your shirt and banyan? Actually he'd quite liked her wearing his clothes, both because her breasts had been unbuttoned it made something in him very, very content. The yellow dress, however, quite suited her. She seemed to glow in the candlelight, like a beacon of purity.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
And I always return to the illusion that we are still together, and then -unwillingly- to the knowledge that you have made a hostage of my memory...
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I knew people who dreamed all the time about going somewhere else, and they let that ruin their lives. When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say that our longing for God is God's longing for us. In this way, prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
It's a happy life and someone is missing.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
When my grandmother touches my hair in my sleep, I feel like a lost child. There is never enough of her to comfort me.
~ Elizabeth Rosner
Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.
~ Elizabeth Strout
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.
~ Elizabeth Strout
My plans for today are to hang about hoping for a glimpse of her, to have my heart eaten away by the thought of her; to feel my blood bounding maddeningly, ridiculously, like a young boy's; to despair; to realise the weight of my misery and hunger with each step I take.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again—not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organization, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions, to oneself.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
But of what use is it to be whitewashed and trim outside, to have pleasant creepers and tidy shutters, when inside one's soul wanders through empty rooms, mournfully shivers in damp and darkness, is hungry and no one brings it food, is cold and no one lights a fire, is miserable and tired and there's no chair to sit on?
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again—not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organization, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions, to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one—oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious!
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I don't want to stay here without you,' said Dolly. 'This place is you. You've made it. It is soaked in you. I should feel haunted here without you. Why, I should feel lost.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I was determined to find you first, he said, before I go to Rose. And he added quickly, I want to kiss your shoes. Do you? said Scrap, smiling. Then I must go and put on my new ones. These aren't nearly good enough.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The people I love are always somewhere else and not able to come to me.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!
~ Elizabeth Wein