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Quotes About Longing

You can get there from here." That favorite saying of Rick's has become one of mine, too. It's shorthand for a potent way of thinking about the future. "Here" is the present, which is in some way less desirable than our imagined future. "There" is the target of our longing. And "you" are the one moving yourself from here to there. We expect something from the future, and also from ourselves.
~ Shane J. Lopez
What I said was I'll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it's funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I'd be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I'm willing to die alone but god knows I don't want to live that way.
~ Shane Koyczan
All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
~ Shannon Hale
What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?
~ Shannon Hale
But the hoping, that's what really hurts.
~ Shannon Hale
This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?
~ Shannon Hale
How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo
~ Shannon Hale
Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born
~ Shannon Hale
A need, a need, a need have I A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh
~ Shannon Hale
That's the word he'd used - stunning. It's a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone.
~ Shannon Hale
I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made me feel all the time like I felt when I watched those movies.
~ Shannon Hale
she also felt a yearning like the beginnings of a yawn arching in her chest to have that separation and to become, finally, who she would be.
~ Shannon Hale
How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, and my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, what does she want? What can I do for her? She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? There was a heavy pause, then Enna burst out laughing. Finn smiled at his boots.
~ Shannon Hale
but I suddenly had to see you again. I know that seems ridiculous, but I look at you, and I feel sure of something.
~ Shannon Hale
Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned — my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole.
~ Shannon Hale
Why was it that when she was aching for a man, everyone was married, but when she was giving them up, so many men were so awkwardly single?
~ Shannon Hale
I'm supposed to leave tomorrow," she said, "but I can stay a couple more days, change my flight. I could find a hotel in London, far away from Wattlesbrook's scope of vision, and I could see you. Just hang out a bit before I go home, no weirdness, no pressure, I promise." He smiled broadly. "That's an offer I can't refuse because I'm simply mad to see you in pants. I have a feeling you have a very nice bum.
~ Shannon Hale
Charlotte couldn't allow herself to dwell on how it felt to hold Eddie's hand - as if all that mattered in the world were expressed in that touch; as if she would be safe and happy forever because this wonderful man wanted to be beside her; as if doves had come to nestle and coo beseechingly in her bosom. No, she really couldn't allow herself to dwell on that, especially if doves were involved. Doves crossed the line. As they often do.
~ Shannon Hale
out of her sight.
~ Shannon Hale
Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!" she said to herself. Not long until her best friends till The End, Raven Queen and Cedar Wood, would return to Ever After High. At last! They both lived far, far away, and calls on the MirrorPhone just weren't the same as a friend by your side.
~ Shannon Hale
Things are't working out so well, and each time the men in your life dissapoint you, you let Mr. Dary in a little bit more. Perhaps you've come tot he point where you're so attached to the idea of that scoundrel, you wont be satisfied with anything less.
~ Shannon Hale
All I've ever wanted was to be near you.
~ Shannon Hale
They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her heart took its time quieting down.
~ Shannon Hale
he is handsome in the way you'd like your husband to be handsome. Someone you can look at for the rest of your life.
~ Shannon Olson