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Quotes About Longing

Ja vill inte vara ditt barn. (Bengt) - Vad vill du vara då? (Gun) - Din älskare. (Bengt)
~ Stig Dagerman
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
~ Sting
Any man worth my love lives only in storybooks.
~ Storm Constantine
I spent much of my time painting, and portraits of a dozen lost loves adorned the walls of my home; their cold eyes stared down at me with disdain, their lips forever smiling.
~ Storm Constantine
Impulsively, I reached out to touch him him, even though I knew such action would evaporate his fragile corporeality. My hand touched silky hair, felt the hardness of skull beneath. I pulled away, gasping, drawing up my knees. This was too real.
~ Storm Constantine
Perhaps she likes to sit there with his eyes upon her. For now, it seems that nothing else of his will touch her.
~ Storm Constantine
Slake the thirst that has assailed you for so long.
~ Storm Constantine
He wanted to offer reassurance, encouragment, but a maelstorm of images silenced his words. Heavy breathing, but of terror, not desire. Owen's taut body, his hammering heart, his hunger to plunder and invade held back. As well as this, a pitiful ache of longing, of feelings impossible to articulate, a sense of history, of timelessness, a silver reed of connection stretching back into the black diamond-studded night of eternity and magic, the earth, the power, a circle.
~ Storm Constantine
I remembered how she had fought against my presence in the past, and how, in secret moments she had opened her heart to me, telling me she knew I wasn't real, but that in many ways, I was more real to her than anything. How I had longed to reveal myself to her at those times. Perhaps I should have.
~ Storm Constantine
I always knew we would be reunited one day, but I thought I would have to search long and hard to find you, perhaps even wake you from a tomb.
~ Storm Constantine
The feeling was to be savoured, but not indulged just yet.
~ Storm Constantine
My interest in her had always been out of the ordinary; something which transcended desire and gratification; a feeling I hoped was reciprocated.
~ Storm Constantine
Longing and anger too up arms with her again, as usual.
~ Storm Constantine
He had looked as beautiful as she remembered him, yet he had all but forgotten her.
~ Storm Constantine
I like you, Lahash. I find you attractive. Yet I looked at you beside him, and you are like a pinprick of light to his sun. That is the legacy of having loved him.
~ Storm Constantine
I am castrated by my own deliquencies," Shem said. "Not even with you can I overcome them. The thought of a kiss turns my stomach, yet you are a lovely creature.
~ Storm Constantine
She had sacrificed a potential relationship for the sake of a dream that could never be real.
~ Storm Constantine
She could smell the perfume of his own body beneath that of the aftershave: a scent of corn and ozone. It was unbearable. She made a promise to herself that she would have him, eventually. She could not stand it if she didn't.
~ Storm Constantine
He was so beautiful it was almost unbearable. His feline body, now shirted in khaki drab, his blond-streaked hair, seemed to represent all that Ari could ever want, all that she would be denied once Star Eyed moved on.
~ Storm Constantine
Othman willed her face to turn to him. He could see she was anxious, uncertain, but recognised within her eyes a hunger for him.
~ Storm Constantine
To be apart from Min would be like dying for him, and no gloves of fur and snakeskin could stroke away the pain.
~ Storm Constantine
Your love has brought me back. I am coming to you.
~ Storm Constantine
Just for a moment, I longed to succumb to the hysteria within me that was demanding admission.
~ Storm Constantine
I am she who once lived within your father, but he cast me out at the old domain. I miss him so badly. I miss the warmth of flesh. Let me in, Dragon Heir. Let me lie comfortably within your skin. I can show you such delights.
~ Storm Constantine