Quotes About Longing

She was all that he wanted, all that he had ever wanted, even though he had lost track of that truth for a while. "James

He kissed her into silence, and then said, his voice husky with passionate longing, "Take me back, Eloise. Please, take me back.

It was just that - Gabby's common sense came to the rescue. Quill was an uncommonly handsome man. His eyes made her feel weak in the knees and warm in the belly. / The problem, Gabby rationalized, is that Father never allowed me to have anything to do with men. So now I am overcome by the species in general.

nights?" Something unraveled in her heart, destroying the last of her defenses, the final shard of sanity she possessed. "Yes! It is, it is.

Yes." Ridiculous twaddle flooded his mind. Your eyes looked like forget-me-nots. I want to kiss you. I want to tear off your clothing. I want to marry you. You are my duchess.

God, I've missed you so much

The day I stop looking for you, the day I stop waiting for you, will be the day that I die, he said, meeting her eyes. And then I'll just wait for you to join me again.

He took one step forward, thinking to run after the carriage, to run mad, madder than he already was.

Odeio-o - disse Kate, com convicção. - Bem, eu não. Porque é melhor viver como uma chama Kate, conhecer um homem e amá-lo, mesmo que ele não possa ser teu, do que nunca amar.

He didn't adore Stella. He craved her, like water in a desert.

E aspetto sempre che il mio giorno arrivi, simile a un fratello meraviglioso con cui ci si racconta, abbracciati, la lunga noia...

Ricerco un bene fuori di me. Non so chi 'l tiene non so cos'è. (Aria di Cherubino).

no one was happy, everyone felt they were stuck there against their will, everyone was looking for something else, everyone knew there was a better life for them outside its walls.

de la implacable sensación de que mi vida se me queda corta.

Dicen que de los muertos se acaba añorando más las manías que te irritaban que la coherencia de sus actos

A la memoria de mi padre, que nunca quiso tenerme tan lejos.

A mí ahora, hiperactiva, prolífica, con voluntad para meterme en negocios raros que me enriquezcan una vida que siento que se me va a quedar corta.

Six dollars," Matt muttered as a sharp stone cut into his linen-bound foot. I could spend that much in six minutes at the mall! Not that there is a mall anywhere near here , he thought gloomily, looking into the darkened woods. What I wouldn't give to see a mall right now, with heat and electric lights and restaurants and shoe stores! But that's all two hundred years away.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

There's a girl here and She's almost you...

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Perhaps one of the reasons why God chooses to leave us in this terribly broken world with its various disappointments is to create in our souls a certain dissatisfaction, an insatiable hunger for home.

C.S. Lewis knew this. He believed that we were too easily satisfied with the "lesser joys" of life instead of pressing on to pure, full joy in Christ. He wrote, "We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition [and food] when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased"7 Solomon

Because we were made for him, any place where he isn't will never satisfy us. In