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Quotes About Longing

He had collected as many stolen glances as possible, knowing it was all he would ever have of her.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He could no longer deny that for the rest of his life, he would measure every other woman against her, and find them all lacking. Her smile, her sharp tongue, her temper, her infectious laugh, her body and spirit, everything about her struck a pleasurable chord in him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The feel of her, soft and small and alive, caused him to groan with tortured relief. His hands raked over her, his mouth dragging hungrily over her hair, skin, clothes, as if he would devour her whole. "Grant," she gasped, flinching from the force of his kisses. He gave an animal growl of pleasure and need, crushing his lips hard over hers.
~ Lisa Kleypas
After one last luxurious inhalation of her scent, Devon released her slowly, knowing that for the rest of his life, a single breath of a rose would bring him back to this moment.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Sing to me," Merripen whispered as the blinding darkness rolled over him. Win continued to stroke his head as she crooned a lullaby. His fingers touched her throat, seeking the precious vibration of her voice, and the sparks faded as he lost himself in her, his fate, at last.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing. Think
~ Lisa Kleypas
For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.
~ Lisa Kleypas
not a day goes by when I am not thinking of you you are like an open field full of ocean waves – to run through and never get wet but almost. this is the way I want to go home in a place – where the curtains are sails – bulging go break the fence post the houses want to run away
~ Unknown
I tried not to think of Uncle Ray as being gone forever. I just liked to imagine him on one really long Lost Weekend.
~ Lisa Lutz
Too much caffeine. Not enough you.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Memories are the enemies that never die," he says, turning away and shoving open his door, leaving me with the pain carved in those words that I am fairly certain he didn't want me to hear. But I did, and they speak to me, diving deep in my soul with the blood of my own loss, and taking root. I say I want my memories back, but I'm not so sure I really do. It's an idea I reject as I shove open my door and stand.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Until then," he says, all velvet and seduction, "I'll be fantasizing about the moment when the only thing wrapped around me is you.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
You're a beautiful woman who deserves to be properly fucked, and I conclude from your actions and your answers to my questions that you haven't been. I want to be the man to remedy that. I want it very much.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
only person I have left in this world is also missing. Gio
~ Lisa Renee Jones
How does dirt find its way into old houses like it does? Sometimes I think it's the house itself, old and disintegrating by degrees, breathing out sighs of itself, sighs longing for a little bit of notice.
~ Unknown
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
~ Lisa See
He moved to kiss my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my lips for several long, searching moments. Right then, I wished we could stay together. Forever.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
I have always loved you... Since the first day I saw you, and even more with each day. The loving of you threatens to undo me now.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.
~ Lisa Unger
My Sleeping Beauty ~ I kissed you, but you did not wake. I find this strange for I know I am your prince.
~ Unknown
However, I am accustomed to not having what I want.
~ Unknown
I remember lost loves, and loves that never were.
~ Unknown
To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
~ Unknown
I'm hungry for water and sky and days that aren't divided by the tiny squares in an appointment book.
~ Unknown