Quotes About Longing

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.

She resented the way she was listening out for him, her attention poised, holding its breath, for the creak of the door or a floorboard. Wanting it, dreading it.

I'll wait for you. Come back. She meant it. Time would show she really meant it.

Is he about to become that man, that modern fool of a certain age, who finds himself pausing by shop windows to stare in at the saxophones or the motorbikes, or driven to find himself a mistress of his daughter's age?

Then it came to her plainly what she felt about Jack's return. So simple. It was disappointment that he had not stayed away. Just a little longer. Nothing more than that. Disappointment.

If she went, what was he going to do with all these loving facts, these torturing details? If she wasn't with him, how would he bear all this knowledge of her alone? The force of these considerations drove the words out of them, they came as easily as breath. I love you, he said.

Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how artificial that closeness seemed now as they embarked on their small talk, their helpless catechism of polite query and response. As the distance opened up between them, they understood how far they had run ahead of themselves in their letters. This moment had been imagined and desired for too long, and could not measure up.

It was a cliché of romantic love, but no less painful for that: the stronger my feelings, the more remote and unattainable Miranda appeared.

If you asked for our souls, it wouldn't be too much

Next to me, Saiman smiled. We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

I love you, I told him. There. Nice and simple. I knew you would find me. He smiled at me. I would never stop looking.

He said "woman" in the same way I'd say "Mmmmm, yummy chocolate" after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him." Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. "And?" You're the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.

Is there anything else you need to tell me?" Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No.

We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn't a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.

You sure you don't want to kiss me good-bye, baby?

And your skin is like honey. I wonder how you taste. Bitter and tired. Mhm.

There is a shortage of you in my life.

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

When Radar goes home, Peg and Erin go down to meet him. Erin sees Radar in uniform and calls him Daddy. It so incredibly perfectly captured the heartbreak of being away from your child who was growing up without you.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.