Yearned Quotes

52 quotes by 47 authors

He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with… — Kim Edwards
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens… — Katherine Dunn
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? — Margaret Atwood
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.… — Parker J. Palmer
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to… — Stephenie Meyer
Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned… — Cecelia Ahern
It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To… — Stephenie Meyer
She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickonâ€¦ but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow… — George R. R. Martin
How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,â€ Tyrion sighed to her. â€œHow I have yearned to have that eunuchâ€™s tongue pulled… — George R. R. Martin
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just… — Ismail KadarÃ©
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought… — Ken Follett
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too… — Milan Kundera
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate… — Ann Brashares

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