#longing

"But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you."

"We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way."

"In my memory her love shimmers, glimmers, and glitters the way light on black water reflects like diamonds, the treasure that was us."

"We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie."

"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

"The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair."

"The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness."

"You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow"

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

"Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be."

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."

"I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any."

"If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it."

"We all long for something. Midgets long to be long, but I long to belong."

"There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness."

"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."

"My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."

"..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more."