Sapphic Yearning Quotes

“I thought of you today, for I was over in the fields and found a brookful of delicious crisp water-cresses, but I shall let them grow until you come, for I don't think anybody cares much for them. I pulled two or three and washed them in the brook and thought there never were any so good. Some day we will take a piece of bread and butter and go there and have a banquet.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“I shall be with you tomorrow, your dear birthday. How I am looking forward to Thursday evening. I don't care whether there is starlight or a fog. Yes, dear, I will bring the last sketch and give it its last touches if you think I had better any more time on it. I am tired of writing things. I want now to paint things, and drive things, and kiss things...”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett