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Quotes About Longing

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.
~ Peter S. Beagle
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
~ Oscar Wilde
You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time.
~ R.L. LaFevers
I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
~ Rachel Caine
I love you, Kaylee. More than I've ever loved anyone. More than I will ever love anyone. If I could freeze this moment in time and never have to let you go, I would do it without a second thought.
~ Rachel Vincent
I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.
~ Rainbow Rowell
For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.
~ Richard Siken
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.
~ Richard Siken
Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.
~ Richelle Mead
I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.
~ Richelle Mead
Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.
~ Richelle Mead
Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.
~ Ella Henderson
God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
~ Ellen Hopkins
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
~ Euripides
Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.
~ Faith Sullivan
My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.
~ Fiona Apple
I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.
~ Gabriel Mann
Too much down time makes us miss home.
~ Glenn Tipton
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
~ Gregory Maguire
We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.
~ Harry Reid
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
~ Heinrich Heine
Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
~ Hilda Doolittle
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.
~ Holly Black