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Quotes About Yearn

Me hizo falta la luz de tu energía y miré devorando la esperanza...
~ Pablo Neruda
M]otherlessness caused one of the great thirsts of the human condition.
~ Pat Conroy
Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?" "Always," Carol said
~ Patricia Highsmith
Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too
~ Patricia Highsmith
Therese leaned closer toward it, looking down at her glass. She wanted to thrust the table aside and spring into her arms, to bury her nose in the green and gold scarf that was tied close about her neck. Once the backs of their hands brushed on the table, and Therese's skin there felt separately alive now, and rather burning.
~ Patricia Highsmith
and wished with all her power to wish anything, that the woman would simply continue her last words and say, "Are you really so glad to have met me? Then why can't we see each other again? Why can't we even have lunch together today?" Her voice was so casual, and she might have said it so easily.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Perhaps it was a statement after all: I don't want to die without knowing you. Do you feel the same way, Carol? She could have said the last question, but she could not have said all that went before it.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Carol: My angel, flung out of space.
~ Patricia Highsmith
How I yearn to throw myself into endless space, said Maggie, and float above the awful abyss. Both Baedecker and Gavin turned to stare at her. Goethe, she said as if in self-defense.
~ Dan Simmons
I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.
~ Daniel Handler
But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.
~ Daniel Handler
She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.
~ Daniel Handler
Phil Needle supposed what he meant was that he wanted to be God, just long enough to find his daughter. It was not a prayer but a promotion. This was why nobody liked God: they wanted his job.
~ Daniel Handler
Lo que sucede con los deseos del corazón es que tu corazón ni siquiera sabe lo que desea hasta que lo tiene delante.
~ Daniel Handler
But I want it anyway, Ed. I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.
~ Daniel Handler
Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.
~ Brian Celio
I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.
~ You've Got Mail
You meant to make me happy make me sad. Want to make it better better so bad.
~ Sara Bareilles
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
~ David Foster Wallace
but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl.
~ William Boyd
It's not easy to live with something you can't have
~ William Dietrich
Go out among them and tell them that their nostalgia for places they have never been is sex
~ William Gaddis
He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.
~ William Gay
What he wanted, he had realized in the last few minutes, was everything. He wanted the rest of her life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.
~ William Gay