Quotes About Longing

Say what?" Jenks blurted out. "You think those moss wipes are coming back?" "I wish," I muttered. "I've got some serious hurt with their name on it.

I'd give anything if you'd kiss me. I said. I mean, I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days, I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. Almost required if you're leaving.

What is it you want?" My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said.

I want to wake up beside you, see your curls on my pillow. I want a chance at falling in love.

I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me.

It pulled emotion from me I wasn't aware I could feel. A deep painful regret. Unrequited need.

I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

I wanted that feeling back—even if it was a lie. Just for a night, so I wouldn't forget how it felt until I found it again.

it was the hunger from seeing someone who has what you want but knowing that if you get it, it will break your heart, your life, and your soul.

I loved Kisten. I wanted Ivy to bite me. It made sense, if I didn't think about it too hard.

It took everything I had to pull from his lips, and even as I did, I felt a new desire layering itself over the old, soaking in where it would linger in my thoughts.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

Oceans of clouds in my chest.

Oh God, Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore.

Oh I miss you Hetti Moore But there's no one here left to tell - The world has gone black before my eyes.

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier

Yes. Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it. The old hopeless passion, isn't it?

I stared at older men I thought might be candidates and was thoroughly heartbroken every time the connection didn't occur the way I'd written it in my journal.

enkele grote gevoelens blijven het mensenhart bezighouden: eerzucht en liefde, eenzaamheid en honger, vriendschap en angst voor de dood - of verlangen daarnaar.

If I happened to find a diamond one day, I would call it Dagny, because the very sound of your name thrills me. I only wish that I could forever hear your name, hear it spoken by all men and beasts, by every mountain and every star. I wish I were deaf to every sound except your name ringing in my ears day and night for the rest of my life.

Man sværmer om sommeren, så holder man op for den gang. Men nogen sværmer hele sitt liv og står ikke til å forandre.

A veces añoro lugares que ni siquiera sé que existen.

Engang kom han med skjorten åpen og han var tykt lodden på brystet. Det er som en eng å lægge sig i! tænkte jeg, for jeg var så ung. Jeg kysset ham nogen ganger, det er på det jeg vet at jeg aldrig har oplevet noget lignende.

But there was she, and there were you. Her breath was on you, you tasted flesh. She came from some darkness—she was certainly not of this earth. Remember the eyes?