Quotes About Longing

A veces, sólo se puede sentir algo por su ausencia. Por el espacio vacío que deja atrás.

Two oceans between us. And still not enough.

Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. "Are you hungry?"she asks. Am I ever.

Ahora lo sé. Me gustaría hacer esa promesa mil veces y perderme mil veces de haberla escuchado tocar ayer por la noche o para verla en el sol de la mañana. O incluso sin eso. Sólo para saber que ella está en algún lugar. Viva.

Nuestros labios… No había suficiente piel, suficiente saliva, suficiente tiempo, nuestros labios estaban tratando de compensar todos estos años perdidos. Nos besamos. Se encendieron los interruptores de alta tensión.

I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US.

But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.

Pero yo sabía que con Adam sí había motivos para armar revuelo. Lo sabía por el calor que recorrió mi cuerpo aquella noche, cuando me dejó en casa después del concierto y me besó una vez más en la puerta. Lo sabía porque me quedé despierta hasta el amanecer abrazada a la almohada. Porque no puede comer al día siguiente, ni borrarme la sonrisa de la cara.

Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge.

Quiero tocar cada parte de él. Es como si su cuerpo fuese un sol gigante, emitiendo su propia fuerza de gravedad.

It's the hoping that makes it hurt.

Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.

Some things you don´t know you want until they´re gone. Other things you think want, but don´t understand you already have them.

Cruzaste las aguas, me dejaste en la orilla; eso ya supuso mi muerte, pero aún quisiste más. Volaste el puente, cual terrorista rabiosa, y desde tu ribera me mandaste un beso. Empecé a seguirte, pero advertí, demasiado tarde, que bajo mis pies sólo había aire.

En solo un día, había llegado a amar esa sonrisa. Y ahora la quiero eliminar.

I drove her to the airport. She kissed me goodbye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she skipped through security. She never came back.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love... This is being in love. It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.

And then I went to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can't understand.

And it took me by surprise how much I wanted to be kissed by him, to realize that I'd thought about it so often that I'd memorized the exact shape of his lips, that I'd imagined running my finger down the cleft of his chin.

It's like an ache, how much I miss them. How much I miss her. I'm so tired of missing things I don't have

There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss.

Some things you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think you want, but don't understand you already have them.

Tenho uma vida cheia. Como é que posso sentir este vazio? Por causa de um sujeito? Por causa de um dia? Mas, enquanto tento conter as lágrimas, vejo os dias que antecedem o Willem.

Porque não é possível, pura e simplesmente. É menos possível que encontrar uma agulha numa fábrica de agulhas. É menos possível que encontrar uma estrela solitária no universo. É menos possível que encontrar, entre tantos milhões que existem no mundo, a pessoa que podemos amar.