To reckon his age he carved numbers in his foot, and his…

I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Her throat and eyes ached. No, everything was not all right. I don’t want to be a monster.”

— Wendy Knight

“Somewhere, a bird sang a song that ached.”

— T.J. Klune

“My body yearned for power, but my heart ached for my friends.”

— Aprille Legacy

“Her chest ached, but this was the one last thing she had to do, the one last honor she could give her friend. Celaena…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Karl ached to stroke her, to explore her delicate features with his hand and reveal what the paltry candle light could not; the feel…

— Jack Croxall

“The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting…

— Marisha Pessl

I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new…

— Stephenie Meyer

“She longed to reach up, stroke his face, wrap her arms around his neck, and pull him closer. She longed to swim in his…

— Tinthia Clemant

“Okay, okay. Sheesh, I guess getting changed into a gigantic booger put you into a crappy mood.” “Gee, you think?” My legs ached”

— H.P. Mallory

“It ached so badly to ask for what I needed. Because I hadn’t before. And I was realizing…the more time I spent with Alex,…

— Fae Quin

“I followed Ema and Krista to the hospital. On the way there, the potions and Blood Lust wore off. Every part of my body…

— Steve the Noob

“His uselessness ached. The”

— Molly O'Keefe

“unaccustomed Tuscan sunlight, and his body ached from contorting his long frame into a plane seat. The irony of hating long distance flights wasn’t…

— Sally Clements

Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon