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“I will look at you in the darkness of the night, where there are no colours to fill my eyes and where there are no frames that would define your shape. In the silence, I will seek the warmth of the...”
“There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawaterbegs the pearl to break its shell.and the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling! Atnight, I open...”
“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
“Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,...Before I met this ...”
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...”
“Last night, lost in spaces between starbays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you”
“You can't speak to him, he said, if you speak to him, if you give any sign to him at all, he will come back; he has to stop existing for you.”
“Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in youfor the wonder and t...”
“And youll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.”
“Our deepest longings and the question of who we are intended to be cuts us in half, dividing us within ourselves. At critical stages and significant moments in the course of life, we sink with the ...”
“Not that time alone with Ingrid was something to wish away. She'd chosen him. Given herself to him, and even though he couldn't claim her in the human way, she was still his. Passing the day and ni...”
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
“A river starts by longing for the ocean...”
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
“I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.”
“Some people never say the words I love you, for like a child theyre longing to be told.”
“I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where...”
“Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there..”
“I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.”
