Quotes About Yearning

Nicholas lay with his hands on his chest, thinking how hollow it felt, like an empty gourd. He had never missed having a family, though he had wanted one all his life.

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it!

As a child I experienced loss for what I felt was withheld from me: the delicious milk, the mountains of flowers I could not roll in, the cousins I could not play with, a beautiful house on a plateau. As the years grew with me, I became aware of absences that impacted me directly and indirectly: the loss of place, of stories, of family and of citizenship.

the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Callum's pull is irresistible now. He needs him. Adam is falling desperately, physically, finally in love, and suddenly it feels like a very long way to fall. Please catch me, he thinks. Please be there when I land.

He felt an almost unbearable longing to press himself against her scales and fall asleep with her star-speckled wings over his.

At night, without the distant hint of sunlight, the room felt colder and more hollow. Clay stretched up and sniffed at the darkness that had fallen on the other side of the hole. He thought it smelled like stars.

Moon took up so much of his headspace. He caught himself watching her the way he used to watch Cobra, hoping for a glance that would hint she might love him back. He wanted to bring her new scrolls that would make her face light up. He wanted to make her soup when her visions gave her headaches and sing her silly songs to help her stop worrying. He wanted to fly beside her while she saved the world.

I'm interested in going back to my mother, Moon thought. Can I explore that?

He pushed back against the little jump that his heart made when he saw her.

He smiled a little sadly. "I wish you could," he said.

But all she wanted was to be with Clay. Near him, around him, breathing the same air and watching the same skies. That wasn't asking too much. And if it meant she wasn't hurting anyone anymore, wasn't that what everyone wanted? Maybe not. Maybe Queen Ruby wanted Peril to be miserable and alone.

Unless that's what this happy feeling is, the one I get every time I see her. Uh-oh.

the first time in forever.

Winter — I want to go home.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon, and it made him feel hollowed out, like an ice cave.

There was once a big atomic bomb That wanted to be a bullet. His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet. "I miss", he sighed, "the personal touch.

Wanting no other man save the one she could not get, any other man, the nearest at hand, served her purpose.

Think of the fellow in that play that calls out "My kingdom for a horse" – it would not have been poetry at all, had he said sheep.

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Short, narrow streets run far and wide / as if they were homesick.

Whenever I'm leaving I get sentimental for that nostalgia I know I won't have the next day.

Then it comes to him—how you can't return to a place you've never been to, can't recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.