Quotes About Yearned

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!

Although many pairs of lips spoke her name, none ever brought its reality to her.

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

I was not the one he wanted to rise from or return to

He needed her. He needed her now.

Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin.

That's what poems are for, unlivable love.

And yet he did not find the happiness he had dreamed of, nor the peace he had so much desired, and she understood him, and loved him for that very reason, that he had found neither happiness nor peace; deep, deep inside her she loved him because he had fled.

Hanan Al-Shaykh

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Except for Thurlow,there was not a person she would have missed and many a one to whom she would gleefully have said farewell forever.But that had changed now,utterly changed. She longed for Dragon, the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand,the warmth of his smile. For a moment she closed her eyes and saw him behind them.

It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Oh, how I had willed her to come back.

I've gotten plenty of things. Plenty of girls. But never her. ", Drew Donovan in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you.

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

The detective had moved to Fort Lauderdale from St. Paul because his wife had inexplicably yearned to experience humidity. A decade later she was back in the Twin Cities and Rolvaag was still in Florida, divorced and sweating like a hog for eleven and a half months of the year.

In his homilies, this old Jesuit always talked about desire, and how we were connected by our desires. He said the most basic human desire was the desire to be desired by one you desire.

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.