“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there..”
― Train - Drops of Jupiter
― Train - Drops of Jupiter
“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Barnacle Love
― Barnacle Love
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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