Quotes About Longing

A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders of the Ridge. She couldn't explain the call of Angel Ridge. Women before her, like her mother, had experienced the same longing, had tried to assimilate with the people below the mountain and had been cruelly rejected, returning to the mountain to live a singular existence.

I had seen a photograph of Sara at two. In it, her hair is platinum and falls around her face in happy disarray. She is dressed in yellow. Babyhood clings to her still and in the sunlight she appears incandescent. She is golden and delicious, sweet as a lemon drop. But her father never asks to see her.

Jack couldn't help but watch Nonie as she left. She looked to be twenty-nine, thirty at the most, stood maybe five foot-four and was slender. She had shoulder-length, curly, walnut-colored hair and the largest most beautiful blue eyes he'd ever seem Her nose and ears were small in comparison to her full lips, which he'd give anything to kiss.

I will never stop grieving for my long-held wish for enduring love that does not reduce its major players to something less than they are.

Mas talvez prazeres tardios sejam ainda mais doces por conta da espera.

You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.

Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love.

When the coach set me down before that avenue of trees – straight and stern with cicadas screaming in the tall branches – I saw no welcome for a starved brat missing her mama.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

When I am touched by love, karma collected over everystage of my life is influenced simultaneously. The child's longing to be protected, the adolescent's confused longing, the adult's mature desire- all are stirred. The wounds of not being loved in the past reach out to be healed, and the heart's tender hopes flow again.

The love you seek is seeking you at this moment. Your longing, your deep fantasies about being loved are mere shadows of the melting sweetness that makes spirit want to love you.

Yeah, I have a burning issue all right, Dr Weinburger. I wish someone would tell me why it is, with Allie gone and the father count reduced by one, that I can't be Daddy to my little girl anymore.

Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.

Something within her, calm and apparently rational, was thinking that it was impossible for her to continue living without him, that she needed him as she needed air. She did not believe that she could bear the loneliness of being in this world without him.

Sometimes we hunger for our own destruction.

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

I do want lots of things, most of which are under your dress.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

There was a part of her she hadn't yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place