Quotes About Longing

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.

ardent, adj. It was after sex, when there was still heat and mostly breathing, when there was still touch and mostly thought... it was as if the whole world could be reduced to the sound of a single string being played, and the only thing this sound could make me think of was you. Sometimes desire is in the air; sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God...

I would always wait to take you home.

The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

You are so close, and I can't reach you.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.

I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.

You can't deny that there's something between us. No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.