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Quotes About Yearning

You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That's about as edgy as you can get.
~ Maren Morris
All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
~ Chet Faker
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
~ Samuel Alexander
He smiled sadly, then placed his hand around mine so we were holding the book together. "I believe that - with everything I have," he said, holding my gaze. He kissed the edge of the book because he could not kiss me.
~ Rachel Hartman
it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen the numbers behind the moon and the stars, behind mountains and history, art and death and yearning, as if my comprehension is large enough that it can encompass universes, from the beginning to the end of time.
~ Rachel Hartman
But they're sending Orma away, which is my fault, and I played my flute so beautifully that I fell in love with everyone and now I want everything. And I can't have it. And I'm ashamed to be running away.
~ Rachel Hartman
I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.
~ Rachel Hartman
She wasn't sure she could breathe without him.
~ Rachel Hauck
Did she feel what he felt? Something old. Something new. already he wanted more. Not just a kiss, though he'd invite her lips to his anytime, but he wanted the woman beneath the kiss
~ Rachel Hauck
Whoever wanted this trunk
~ Rachel Hauck
True, but still, I'd love a peek beyond the veil, as they say.
~ Rachel Hauck
Have you ever wanted something so badly, thought you'd die if you didn't get it, then when you finally did get it, you wondered what all the fuss was about?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
If you knew how hard I found it to stay on my side of the hall last night after we finished watching the movie…" He shook his head. "Your parents absolutely wouldn't approve of the direction that my thoughts are going.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
This look Jason gives me…tell me a little more about that." She shrugged. "He looks like he adores you, like crossing the hallway and knocking on your door crosses his mind sometimes.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Joe and I started dancing. It was strange, because we weren't touching, we were each kinda in our own little space. But the way Joe held my gaze the entire time, it was almost like there was an invisible thread pulling us toward each other. And I couldn't help but wonder if I wasn't a little like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz , searching far and wide for something that had been in my backyard the entire time.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
What's been the most difficult aspect of living with us?" There was silence, but it was the kind where you can sense someone wants to speak but doesn't. Jason was so incredibly still, as though he was weighing consequences. "Not kissing you," he finally said, quietly.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Hey, wait! Come back! I really don't want to go!" Only, he didn't wait, he didn't come back, and I still really didn't want to go.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Hey, come here," Josh said. He was sitting on the love seat looking out the window. "What is it?" I asked, walking over. "The lights are out. You can't see anything out there." "I know." He wrapped his hand around my arm and pulled me down until I was nestled between his thighs, my back to his chest. "I just wanted to hold you.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
And for just a second or two, we lusted after 21 Jump Street Johnny Depp.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
Krispy Kreme's 'Hot Doughnuts' neon sign blinked but the store was empty. Who would want a hot, incredibly-delicious donut right now? No customers stood in line at Louisiana Fried Chicken either. Spicy food without a Mason's jar of cold lemonade? No thanks. The Liquor Bank's parking lot bustled with activity. Customers were leaving the store with brown bags probably filled with ice-cold beer, 7-Ups and bottled waters.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
~ Rachel Hunter
But he never came.
~ Rachel Ingalls
You don't understand the nature of desire.
~ Rachel Ingalls
Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.
~ Rachel Kadish