Quotes About Yearning

He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him—

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven

here we are at the place where I get to beg for it where I get to say Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up? or will I say Roll over and let me fuck you till you puke, Henry, you owe me this much, you can indulge me this at least, can't you? but we both know how it goes. I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater, I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

Every morning the same big and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out You will be alone always and then you will die .

So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts, something other than the desperation.

You do this, you do. You take the things you love and tear them apart or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours.

I said kiss me here and here and here and you did.

Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated cities at the center of me, and here is the center of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we can drink from, but I can't go through with it. I just don't want to die anymore.

I've been in your body, baby, and it was paradise.

All night I stretched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.

There's a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place— well then, game over.

while desire, like a monster, crawls up out of the lake

I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want.

There's a thing in my stomach about this. A simple thing. The last rung.

And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them

you're all I ever wanted / and worth dying for too

We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want, so I said What do you want, sweetheart? and you said Kiss me.

just mash your lips against me.

His shoulder blots out the stars but the minutes don't stop. He covers my body with his body but the minutes don't stop.

I couldn't make you love me and I'm tired of pulling your teeth.

but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down?

but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down? Do I have to stick my tongue in your mouth like the hand of a thief, like a burglary like it's just another petty theft? It makes me tired, Henry. Do you see what I mean? Do you see what I'm getting at?

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud.

leave the gun on the table, this has nothing to do with happiness.