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Quotes About Longing

I want this world. I want you.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.
~ Karen Marie Moning
As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She will never know that tonight, she was mine.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Whether he knew it or not, it was her Drustan, damn it all, just a month and five centuries younger.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Love is funny. Even though you don't have that person anymore, you still have the feeling. You didn't lose your LOVE. You lost the tangible, tactile, sense-sational ability to experience the person or animal you lost.
~ Karen Marie Moning
At fourteen, I'd vowed, one day, I'd be the woman making him laugh, making joy blaze from his face, so tangible it seemed I might catch it in my hands.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Hunger for me, ka-lyrra, he thought silently, get addicted to me. I will be both venom and antidote, your poison and your only cure.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want? He rakes a hungry gaze over my ass and I shiver.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I realized I would rather have a single night with you, even if it meant I was doomed to be bound to you, aching for you forever than not know such love.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He is so beautiful that he makes a part of my soul weep. I don't understand those tears. They aren't like the ones I cry for Alina. They aren't made of water and salt. I think they're made of blood.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Because I knew the moment I saw you," he ground out savagely, her "I hate you" still ringing in his ears, "that in another life—a life where I didn't become a dark sorcerer—you were my wife. I cherished you. I adored you. I loved you until the end of time, Jessica MacKeltar. But I doona get to have that life. So I'll take you any fucking way I can get you. And I'll not apologize for one moment of it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Kiss me as if you remember me. Inspire this wild god as once you did. Incite poetry and fire with your passion and perhaps I'll find a way.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Él. Lélegzem. Akarom. ?t. Mindig. T?z a fagyosságomra. Jég a tüzemre.
~ Karen Marie Moning
How could a peacock lust for a lion?
~ Karen Marie Moning
He, who had once been whole, was halved, without hope of ever being complete again. And when you've known that kind of love, to endure the creeping passage of time without it is to live a half-life where nothing ever feels real.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The nights go on waiting for a light that never comes
~ Karen Marie Moning
I always want you, Chloe-lass," he murmured suddenly in a low voice, for her ears only. "There's no' a moment that I doona.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It was a risky thing he'd just done, of a certain, because if she never agreed, Drustan MacKeltar would ache endlessly for her. His heart trapped by the binding spell, he would sense her eternally, would love her eternally. But should she one day choose to freely give the words back, the bond would intensify a thousandfold. He could live for such a hope.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I didn't say I didn't like you. 'Like' is such a puerile word. Mediocre people like things. The only question of any significant emotive content is: Can you live without it?
~ Karen Marie Moning
After an eternity of grief and regret, he held the only thing he'd ever wanted as much as he wanted to be God. A second chance.
~ Karen Marie Moning
This close to him I must bite my tongue to prevent myself from moaning with need. This close to him I feel like an animal.
~ Karen Marie Moning