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Quotes About Longing

Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused
~ Karen Marie Moning
Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
~ Kate Mara
I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"
~ Katie Aselton
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
~ Ken Follett
I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.
~ Kiera Cass
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.
~ Kristin Cashore
And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.
~ Larissa Ione
...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.
~ Laura Whitcomb
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
~ Lauren DeStefano
She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background
~ Lauren Kate
I guess I don't know what I want." "I do. I want you." "I know, but—" "Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.
~ Lauren Kate
I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
~ Lauren Oliver
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.
~ Libba Bray
Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.
~ Maggie Q
you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
~ Margaret Atwood
Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
~ Mark Lawrence
It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.
~ Mark Victor Hansen