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Quotes About Longing

all I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote something, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum'things has always been and always will be you. I miss you.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
One glance at her, even now in the glass of my mind, and I want to take off and travel with her.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Oh Shnorhk, how beautifully you speak Armenian, the third thing I miss most about you. The second thing I miss most about you: how beautifully you play. Shnorhk not say anything. What trying to say only take away. Shnorhk just scald throat with more tea and eat cake after cake. Grateful still, in the end, that Mnatsagan, always kind, is kind enough not to say the first thing he miss so much.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
i miss the man i thought i was before i met her the man who would have saved her who would have done something who would have been tom maybe hes the one im looking for or maybe im looking for all of them i miss u i love u there's no second ive lived you can't call your own -Navy
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
wondering then if I would ever see her again, sensing I wouldn't, hoping senses were wrong but still not knowing.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
And my heart started hurting because I couldn't share her happiness.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I constantly craved the comforts of feminine attention, even though the thought of actually getting a girlfriend, one who was into me and wanted to be with me, seemed about as real as any dozen of the myths I'd been reading about in class.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
If Sorrow is deep regret over someone loved , there is nothing but regret here
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
~ Markus Zusak
One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.
~ Markus Zusak
Rudy Steiner was scared of the book theif's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have longed for it so much. he must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.
~ Markus Zusak
Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.
~ Markus Zusak
Ed? Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. There's only one thing I want. What's that, Ritchie? His answer is simple. To want.
~ Markus Zusak
and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
~ Markus Zusak
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.
~ Markus Zusak
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
~ Markus Zusak
It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
~ Markus Zusak
She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke Is it really you? Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is.
~ Markus Zusak
Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
~ Markus Zusak
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
~ Markus Zusak
Rudy Steiner temía el beso de la ladrona de libros. Debía de haberlo deseado con todas sus fuerzas. Debió de haberla querido con todo su corazón. Tanto, que nunca más volvería a pedírselo y se iría a la tumba sin él.
~ Markus Zusak
She let herself love me for three minutes. Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer. Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.
~ Markus Zusak
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.
~ Markus Zusak