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Quotes About Yearning

But you cannot know the glimpses I have had, you cannot know there is another, dazzling place, that seems to welcome me! I have been led to it, Helen, by someone marvellous and strange. You won't know this. They will tell you of her, and they will make her seem squalid and ordinary, they will turn my passion into something gross and wrong. You will know, that it is neither of those things. It is only love, Helen - only that. I cannot live, and not be at her side!
~ Sarah Waters
I could not want a lover, more than I want freedom.
~ Sarah Waters
I must bruise her, for all the commonplace wanting of him that ?were I an ordinary girl, with an ordinary heart ? I would surely feel myself.
~ Sarah Waters
The rareness of the article is relative to the desire of the heart which seeks it.
~ Sarah Waters
But in his face I see, at last, how much I want her. For
~ Sarah Waters
When she heard the splash and gurgle of tea being poured from the pot, followed by the rattle of china as he carried the cups to his bedroom, she longed so dismally for a cup of tea of her own that she nearly wept.
~ Sarah Waters
I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere.
~ Sarah Waters
It's a curious, wanting thing.
~ Sarah Waters
But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.
~ Sarah Waters
What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.
~ Sarah Waters
this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
~ Sarah Waters
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.
~ Sarah Waters
How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.
~ Sarah Waters
I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.
~ Sarah Waters
All I can ever see is you. Tell me you see me too. - Nolan from Let Me List The Ways
~ Sarah white
You want to find something, but you don't know what to search for. In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day.
~ Sarah Wilson
I know everything about you, far more than you know of yourself. But I restrain My yearning to "fix" you, waiting instead for you to come to Me for help. Imagine the divine restraint this requires, for I have all Power in heaven and on earth. Seek My Face with a teachable spirit. Come into My Presence with thanksgiving, desiring to be transformed. Then
~ Sarah Young
They were beautiful beyond words, beautiful beyond understanding. So beautiful, I wanted to tear out my heart and hand it over, because after seeing them, I surely wouldn't have any more use for it.
~ Sarah Zettel
Now that you know the wishing ways, you'll feel the wishes around you. They'll make you itchy, 'cause you know you can do something about them, but that ain't always the best idea.
~ Sarah Zettel
The makers, the beautiful, the ones cast out because their light was too brilliant for the world beyond. The ones who wish true and deep with their whole hearts for more than they have. They come here, and we love them.
~ Sarah Zettel
love was all there was. And she had it, even if it wasn't displayed the way she wanted it to be.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Anyway, I don't want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.' It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her.
~ Sarra Manning
This time she´d totally own the goodbye and leave him wanting more.
~ Sarra Manning
And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.
~ Sarra Manning