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Quotes About Yearn

does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?...
~ John Geddes
En mi loca vida había muchas cosas fuera de mi alcance. Supongo que debí de haber sabido que me enamoraría de la persona mas exótica que conocería en mi vida.
~ John Katzenbach
I seek a father who most need a son.
~ John Malcolm Brinnin
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
~ John Masefield
Dying seemed a small price to pay for such a kiss and now he knew why Selene had fallen away from Muire so disconsolate.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Delicious to know you could have him. Delicious to know that you could save him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone…What you want is the whole of me — isn't it, isn't it? — and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone. I haven't wanted to hurt you; I haven't wanted to touch you in any way. When I try and show you the truth I fill you with such despair. Life is so much more impossible than you think.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
So maybe you were that guy that I always talked about. And maybe just maybe everyday I secretly hoped you would figure it out.
~ Elizabeth Heller
I loved him because I wanted to save him, and because I could not. I loved him because I wanted to be enough for him, and I was not. I loved him because I discovered that day, after years of practice, I had a talent for it.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart." "Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college." He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said." "Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet.
~ Elizabeth Scott
As it turned out, she was alone after all. She prayed that he'd come back to her, because she missed him and needed her connection, her fix.
~ Elizabeth Scott
A yearning stirred in him that was not sexual but a kind of reaching toward her simplicity of form. He
~ Elizabeth Strout
They had never kissed, nor even touched, only passed by each other closely as they went into his office, a tiny cubicle off the library - they avoided the teachers' room. But after he said that that day, she lived with a kind of terror, and a longing that felt at times unendurable. But people endure things.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
~ Arthur Miller
I will never possess my hand.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
You deserve to need me, not to have me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
You are missing in my heart...!
~ Backstreet Boys
It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that's not quite in your grasp. It's a very powerful place to explore as an artist, because it's not necessarily sad.
~ Anoushka Shankar
It was like someone far away calling someone else's name.
~ Garth Nix
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
~ Gary Shteyngart
How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world?
~ Gary Shteyngart