Longings Quote by Mary Gaitskill

“I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them . .…

— Carson McCullers

“Sometimes what wishes do...especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.”

— Susan Patron

“...I'd like to know what you want out of life." "I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on…

— Anita Higman

“If you don't want my services, then it's only fair you cut me loose so I can make another girl or two happy this…

— Anne Eliot

“I have wanted you for so long now,” he said roughly, “I’ve no memory of how it feels to be devoid of the craving.…

— Sylvia Day

“Desire is a chipped glass. You keep pouring to fill it up but the cracks will leak forever. You'll never fulfill it.”

— Kato Shigeaki

“Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--" "You." "What was that?" "I…

— Johanna Lindsey

“Short on all the things I don't want, I'm full of love and longing. Take me by the hand and tell me, you would…

— Sara Quin

“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself…

— Bill Bryson

“And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky