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“Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.”
“Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.”
“I wanted so terribly to be good to him.”
“She didnt know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didnt know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore ...”
“They should not clench their fists,its my longing thats drawing me near to them;they should not stand there full of rage,my longing is timidly drawing near to them;they should not be ready to pounc...”
“What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.”
“Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.”
“It isnt for wantof something to say--something to tell you--something you should know--but to detain you--keep you from going--feeling myself hereas long as you are--as long as you are”
“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach ...”
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is h...”
“He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.”
“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you ...”
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
“There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
“had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes”
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of her—to freeze her in my mind so I wouldn’t ...”
“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...”
