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Quotes About Yearning

Their bodies glided together in trembling harmony. Heated skin, rhythmic panting, slamming heartbeats. They made love as if their lives depended on it. Oh, God-Rohan! Yes, Kate, he whispered raggedly in smitten agreement. Oh... my... Surrender to me, he breathed against her lips.
~ Gaelen Foley
And of course it has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't been with a women since I came to your bed back in February-Devlin.
~ Gaelen Foley
I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
~ Gail Carson Levine
I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn't glow. The sun didn't rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went—another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns—I wouldn't find her.
~ Gail Carson Levine
The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I
~ Gail Collins
If you are an artist, you learn how to trap the yearning and put it where you want it, put it where it goes. That's the secret all true artists come to know.
~ Gail Godwin
Ille mi par esse deo videtur ille, si fas est, superare divos, qui sedens adversus identitem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus flamma demanat, sonitu suopte tintinant aures gemina, teguntur lumina nocte. otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est; otio exsultas nimiumque gestis; otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.
~ Galt Niederhoffer
I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
~ Duke Kahanamoku
I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
~ Layne Staley
I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.
~ Hank Williams
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
~ Victoria Pendleton
I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.
~ Cindy Crawford
If I have something to do, an event to do, I am taking it serious. I remember those times when I wish I had events to do.
~ Patrick Beverley
Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, 'How does it feel to have a dad?' And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here.
~ Charice Pempengco
I wish I had claws, just because how cool would that be?
~ Skyler Samuels
I am a great fan of Rituparno's films and have always nurtured a wish of acting in his films. I was very impressed with his 'Chokher Bali,' 'Bariwali,' and 'Raincoat.'
~ Manisha Koirala
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
~ W. H. Auden
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
~ Harlan Coben
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
~ Anne Lamott