Quotes about Longing

What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.

and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She

If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.

The worst thing in the world for a mother is to leave her child. She couldn't bring herself to remember you, because if she did she'd have to leave you behind.

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

That's all someone in the grip of obsession needs: the single possibility that desire might be real, a tiny shred of evidence to show you're not all alone in the dark.

Just like you still think you'll be happier if you run away.

Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner your smile, breaking before me, the flippant last turn of a revolving door, emptying you out, changed, away from me. Even as I hold you I am letting go.

When I no longer have your heart I will not request your body your presence or even your polite conversation. I will go away to a far country separated from you by the sea — on which I cannot walk — and refrain even from sending letters describing my pain.

I wish you were with me, or I with you.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.