Quotes About Longing

Peter's gone away on his training weekend. It's only been one day and I'm already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July. Peter is my cocoa in a cup, my red mittens, my Christmas morning feeling.

This is the moment I realize I don't love him, that I haven't for a while. That maybe I never did. Because he's right there for the taking: I could kiss him again; I could make him mine. But I don't want him. I want someone else. It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

I've never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other it feels like I have.

All I knew was, I wanted her to look at me like that. After that day, I was done for. I liked her, as more than a friend. I maybe even loved her. There have been other girls. But they weren't her.

God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?

Wistfully, she says, "I wish I'd been in love more than once. I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school." Then she lets out a little sigh and falls asleep. Margot falls asleep like that ---- one dream sigh and she's off to never-never land, just like that.

Se siente raro haber gastado tanto tiempo deseando algo, a alguien, y luego un día, de repente, solo se detiene.

Ever since I got your letter … I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.

But I also just wish I could have a hug from my mom on my graduation day.

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not.

Even now, all these years later, I still read them—Conrad's letters to me when I was studying abroad in Spain. Just every once in a while, I pull them all out and sit down and read each one. I know them all by heart, but they still touch me, they still make me feel it all over again.… To think that once we were both very young, and very far apart, and still finding our way back to each other.

Cuando alguien se ha ido durante mucho tiempo, primero guardas todas las cosas que quieres decirles. Intentas mantener un seguimiento de todo en tu cabeza. Pero es como si trataras de aferrarte a un puñado de arena, todos los pequeños trozos se deslizan de tus manos y entonces sólo estás reteniendo polvo y aire. Es por eso que no puedes guardarlo todo así.

Looking up at him, I had this sudden thought. Oh my God. I still love you.

Susannah wanted it to be some kind of perfect summer, where parents were still together and everything was the way it had always been. Those kind of summers don't exist anymore, I wanted to tell her.

Kiss me like you missed me,

Whatever my girl wants", Peter Kavinsky

I'm a person who saves things. I'll hold on forever.

Time is the longest distance between two places. —TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

So for that split second I thought he was going to say my name. But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn't for me" - Lara Jean

It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop. I

Será diferente cuando no sea tan novedoso, cuando no verlo todos los días sea la nueva normalidad, pero por ahora, sólo por ahora, anhelar tiene su propia especia de placer perverso.

I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

even in my sleep I knew exactly how good it used to be. How right it was. And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop yourself from dreaming.

And so when August and September began and still the phone didn't ring, all I had to do was think back to the way he'd looked at me that last night, and I knew there was still hope.