Quotes About Yearn

As I was saying before," he says, his eyes glued to me as I begin to writhe on the sheets beneath me, "I will allow it.

Even with him in me I ache for him, and it's that aching that brings me rapidly to the brink.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

Sky, wait." The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

Jessica Sankiewicz, If Only We

She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

I ask you: what have people – from the very cradle- prayed for dreamed about and agonized over They wanted someone anyone to tell them once and for all what happiness is – and then to attach them to this happiness with a chain…

One loves only the things one cannot conquer.

The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. ("A Story About The Most Important Thing")

Wishing only wounds the heart.

WE NEED TO FALL IN LOVE, PAL—FORGET WOMEN. WHO NEEDS THEM?—DON'T NEVER FORGET YOUR DREAM—GOT A BLACK SCAR ON MY BLUE BLUE HEART . . .

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

and it seemed to me—Oh, I don't know! As if it held all the things I've always tried to find in everything else.

She swallowed hard, taking him in, as rain pattered around them. Nothing back. He held nothing back, and she kept giving him meager handfuls. He deserved better than that. She would set things to rights.

It was not like everyone had said. Not like being needed, or needing; not desperate; it did not whisper that I'd come to harm. I didn't lose my head. No, I was not going to leap from a great height and flap my wings. It was in fact the opposite of flying: it contained the wish to be toppled, to be on the floor, the ground, anywhere I might lie down. . . . On my back, and you on me.

Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.

The expression 'I miss you' in English becomes 'Vous me manquez' in French, which literally means 'You're missing from me'. In my view, it's a wonderful way to express the emptiness in your self when you truly miss someone.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

on the scale of desire, your absence weighs more than someone else's presence

know what it is to want something so badly, you feel like your cells aren't properly bonded together without it. At any moment you might just crumble apart.

Sometimes it's easier to say that you hate what you can't have rather than admit how badly you want it.