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Quotes About Yearn

I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.
~ Robin Hobb
Something about her called away a piece of him, and it floated through the air and she breathed it in, and it was forever lost to her.
~ Lisa Unger
And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
~ Lois Lowry
He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.
~ Lois Lowry
The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I need you more than I need freedom.
~ Lora Leigh
She stared up at him and for an instant his expression went soft all over her before he turned away, gritting his teeth. Dean felt her gentle touch everywhere, in places he'd never thought about before. Like his heart.
~ Lori Foster
Back then, he whispered, I guess I was into masochism, because being there with you, so close when you were so untouchable, was pretty torturous. In the same whisper, Beth asked, So why did you do it? Because not being with you was worse. -Beth and Levi
~ Lori Foster
I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
~ Lorrie Moore
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.
~ Lorrie Moore
My next thought was for Lord Suckling's charming song: 'I prithee send me back my heart / Since I cannot have thine.
~ Louis Bayard
Ma'am, I said, I'd have liked it, having you for a ma.
~ Louis L'Amour
Oh, Jo, can't you? Teddy, dear, I wish I could!
~ Louisa May Alcott
I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
~ Louise Erdrich
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
~ Louise Erdrich
En los castillos medievales, en el enigmático Machu Picchu, en las vetustas pirámides de Egipto: la piel siempre tuvo que ser la piel y el ansia, el ansia.
~ Rosa Montero
And he thinks, God only knows exactly what that was, but it felt like my heart shouting. Some
~ Rose Tremain
threw his soul after his eye across the deep blue gulfs between range and range.
~ Rudyard Kipling
It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire.
~ Salman Rushdie
Oysa onu ac? ac? seviyorlard?, asla kar??l?k veremeyecek kadar tutkulu bir sevgi duyuyorlard? ona; kar??l?k vermeyen sevgisinin izin verdiÄŸi ölçüde seviyorlard? onu.
~ Salman Rushdie
It is a rare thing to be granted your heart's desire.
~ Salman Rushdie
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
~ Salman Rushdie
He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence
~ Salman Rushdie
You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.
~ Collette West, Inside Game