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Quotes About Longing

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.
~ Kristin Hannah, Fly Away
I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.
~ Deb Caletti, Stay
I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.
~ J. Sterling, In Dreams
Gifted Deirdre cast the spell that enabled our souls to eventually be reunited. She couldn't bear for us to be apart, and neither could I.
~ Hope Irving, Twice upon a Time
Chrystle? I'm back!" I refused to say that I was home because Cassie was my home. But I'd lost that, and her, forever, so I'd never truly be home again.
~ J. Sterling, The Perfect Game
Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.
~ Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
Love and romance are things worth waiting for.
~ Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
But he just stared at my eyes, as if searching for a stray eyelash. A free wish.
~ Leah Raeder
My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
~ Tim LaHaye, Tribulation Force
Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
~ Marcel Proust
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far Before you agonize them in farewell?
~ Laurence Hope
But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
~ George Moore
Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
~ William Thackeray
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
~ Caroline Kepnes, You
the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.
~ Charlaine Harris
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
~ Tony Perez
It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.
~ Felicity Jones