"Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the..."
- Jon Gresham
"Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the u..."
- Jean Rhys
"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
- Criss Jami
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven."
- Scott Hastie
"He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it."
- Liam Perrin
"I'm comming to You.You are blazing.I'm giving You a rose.It embalms sweet.I'm givin a kiss...I melt of You.I melt and flow with You.Like an ice in a spring river.I melt and stay. Sun will vaporise us...."
- Martins Paparde
"The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only when I cannot bear how everyone looks at me down here that I make myself forget it. Shadows are ..."
- Catherynne M. Valente
"Minli suddenly thought of Ma and Ba. A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that the tea could not moisten. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon."
- Grace Lin
"Let it all go to waste…For what I long for, I’m bound to resign!Bittersweet is, like the taste of wine,This Love’s captivating taste.Let my heart be tormented by wonderIt will never manage to attain.O..."
- Aleksandra Ninkovic